Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : php-mdb Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/MDB * License : BSD style Description : a database abstraction layer
PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers. It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB goes much further to ensure portability. . Among other things MDB features: . * An OO-style query API * A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers * Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion * Portable error codes * Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching * Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows * Prepare/execute (bind) emulation * Sequence emulation * Replace emulation * Limited Subselect emulation * Row limit support * Transactions support * Large Object support * Index/Unique support * Module Framework to load advanced functionality on demand * Table information interface * RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering) * RDBMS independent xml based schema definition management * Altering of a DB from a changed xml schema * Reverse engineering of xml schemas from an existing DB (currently only MySQL) * Full integration into the PEAR Framework * Wrappers for the PEAR DB and Metabase APIs * PHPDoc API documentation . Currently supported RDBMS: . * MySQL * PostGreSQL * Oracle * Frontbase * Querysim * Interbase/Firebird * MSSQL -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (995, 'unstable'), (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-ck5 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])