Re: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-04-03 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
Lukas Smith wrote: I would disagree there. A query builder could do a lot of stuff much nicer than a DB abstraction layer could do. A query builder could make much better use of RDBMS specific features than a DB abstraction layer could. A query builder can build the query from scratch

RE: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-31 Thread Lukas Smith
50 07 www.dybnet.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -Original Message- From: John Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction Hi Lukas, Bye, John Lukas Smith [EMAIL

Re: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-30 Thread Stig S. Bakken
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 13:01, Daniel Lorch wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused about the ongoing projects aiming towards a standard for database abstraction in PHP. There is DBA [ http://php.net/dba ], PEAR DB and a project by l0t3k (and many, many more). So what is going to be the standard in

RE: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-30 Thread Lukas Smith
1. common API 2. feature compatibility layer (easy query rewrites, type abstraction, handling slightly different usage paradigms such as mysql's auto_increment vs. real sequences, etc.) 3. query builders, schema management, etc. (basically everything that can be done by wrapping

Re: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-30 Thread John Lim
Hi Lukas, Actually a query builder is an add-on. There should be no overhead at all to the db abstraction layer. Bye, John Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 006701c1d84c$795d5b40$4d00a8c0@vandal">news:006701c1d84c$795d5b40$4d00a8c0@vandal... A query builder on top of a DB

[PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-29 Thread Daniel Lorch
Hi, I'm a bit confused about the ongoing projects aiming towards a standard for database abstraction in PHP. There is DBA [ http://php.net/dba ], PEAR DB and a project by l0t3k (and many, many more). So what is going to be the standard in PHP's future? I think l0t3k is working on a C based

Re: [PHP-DEV] DB Abstraction

2002-03-29 Thread Daniel Lorch
Hi silly me, DBA [ http://php.net/dba ] [..] I meant DBX http://php.net/dbx Daniel -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php