Re: A valuable addition to PHP...

From: David Lizano <david(dot)lizano(at)izanet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A valuable addition to PHP...
Date: 2001-03-30 11:51:43
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>
>Of course yet-another-database-interface-layer while certainly a good
>and usefull piece of engineering wouldn't be particularly new and
>innovative. What _would_ be new and innovate, and maybe even impressive
>is a database interface layer that provides not just the usual database
>independant connect / query / result stuff but an organized, database
>independant way of accessing metadata. Writing SQL queries that derive
>metadata by futzing around with the pg_* tables works but is totally
>non-portable. What I would really like to see is a database interface
>layer that encapsulates all that nasty mess. Metadata and other
>introspective stuff is a glaring ommission from SQL.

You should see this pear tutorial. Pear have an abstraction layer library
for databases.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/allan20010115.php3

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