> (2) im working on a database access abstraction, again inspired by Java > and > JDBC (MySQL driver is written and works, BTW). in Java you have the > Resultset.getXXX methods which gets the value of a given column as a > particular type. Java of course is strongly typed, whereas PHP is not. Is > it > useful to implement the getXXX methods natively. i lean toward it > primarily > because 1) folks coming from Java will be right at home 2) sometimes you > need to enforce a particular return type coming from a column 3) Metabase > does it for portability, and although it can be done in PHP, its more > efficient to do it in the extension. On the downside there is the issue of > bloat.
There is currently an effort underway to merge Metabase with PEAR DB. I have just commited the first code into the pear cvs (package is called "MDB" for now). The merge is still not complete. But the idea was that this merged DB abstraction layer could down the road be ported to C ... the sooner the better. In terms of how to abstract things, its quite obvious that Metabase is very far ahead (is there even something similar in other languages?). So I guess Metabase, or MDB when its ready, will be the best place to turn to if you seek this knowledge for a C Extension. Anyways if you are interested then you may want to join the discussion on this new package. All discussion goes to the binarycloud, metabase and pear-dev mailinglists, since there is no dedicated mailinglist for this project, but all of the above the mailinglists are participating. Best regards, Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
