I was googling "PHP best practices" and came across this website<http://www.odi.ch/prog/design/php/guide.php>, and it states,
"In PHP there are no database-independent functions for database access apart from ODBC (which nobody uses on Linux). You should not use the PHPdatabase functions directly because this makes it expensive when the database product changes. Your customer may move from MySQL to Oracle one day or you will need an XML database maybe. You never know. Moreover an abstraction layer can ease development as the PHP database functions are not very userfriendly." Which seems to say to me, "don't ever use PHP to access the database directly," yet I'm sure that's not what's it's saying. Can anybody clarify? My intent was to create a layer of classes and functions that allow me to access the database transparently for what I need - probably some sort of Active Record methodology would be implemented. Is that what is being said here, or is it saying what I perceived it to say? -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
