Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-15 Thread Nicholas Kell
On Dec 14, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Govinda wrote: In previous experience with questions such as these, you will get several types of individual responses to usages of the software. Some good, some bad, depending on the experience level of the commenter with both the language and the code in

[PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Sam Smith
Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? Thanks

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread David Hutto
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? In

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 December 2010 11:10, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? Thanks

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread David Hutto
In other words, in ten years from now, even the advisors you get today will rethink their answers with 20/20/hindsight, and not think about your ignorance of technology, but their own. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 December 2010 15:45, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience with several languages, once you know the basics, even if you do re-invent the 'wheel', so did firestone,michelin, and goodyear, and they're not complaining. And you'll feel better for reinventing, than using

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread la...@garfieldtech.com
I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the API calls you need to use to get to SQL. We then built a layer on top of that which does

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what?

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
la...@garfieldtech.com wrote: I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the API calls you need to use to get to SQL. We then built a layer on

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Govinda
In previous experience with questions such as these, you will get several types of individual responses to usages of the software. Some good, some bad, depending on the experience level of the commenter with both the language and the code in question. It's a combination of your current

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:10:56AM -0800, Sam Smith wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? I use

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:02:33 pm Lester Caine wrote: la...@garfieldtech.com wrote: I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the