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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:55:46 -0500
Reply-To: Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com>
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Subject: Announce: PDO beta releases
From: kingwez@gmail.com (Wez Furlong)

You may have noticed my "drive-by release" of various different PDO
packages tonight/this morning.

This is stage one of the "PDO push".

I'd like to encourage you all to try it out; as you should know, we're
going to be releasing PDO as part of PHP 5.1, so we need as many
people as possible to play around with it to discover any remaining
issues.

Some drivers have had more testing and support than others, simply
because they are easier or more convenient to develop and test
against.

If you find any missing features, inconsistencies between drivers,
bugs or crashes, please report them using the PECL bug tracking
system.  Please categorize bugs correctly, and, if possible, try out
more than one driver.  If you have the same problem for more than one
driver, report the bug using the PDO bug reporting page, otherwise use
the bug reporting page for your driver.  The bug reporting pages can
be found by visiting http://pecl.php.net/<extensionname> and clicking
on the "Package Bugs" link.  Please don't submit the same problem more
than once; add your feedback to existing bugs if it is appropriate.

During the PDO push, I want to release updated PDO packages at the end
of each day in which a bug is found and fixed.  Please help me with
this task by reporting any issues as clearly and completely as
possible.  Now is the time to test and evaluate PDO; if we don't get
enough feedback over the next couple of weeks, it won't make it into
PHP 5.1 and you'll have to wait until the next major PHP release.

You'll no doubt be wondering how to use PDO, so here are some useful resources:

The PHP manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo.php

Various posts from my blog; some information is slightly outdated, one
of the links includes slides from one of my talks on PDO at the
php|works conference last year:

http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=41572e4a-0757-8311-6093-1572e4a93e1b
http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=415464e0-6270-1081-4799-15464e02aa74
http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=a1907cf3-1afc-4ffe-b36b-a17b405fbeb5
http://netevil.org/node.php?uuid=bf0a58d7-68ab-49d0-9a29-f5ec97c5dfde

My article on the Oracle Technology Network giving an overview of PDO.
Again, some information my be slightly outdated.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/otn_pdo_oracle5.html

Also during the PDO push, I'll be working with Dan to help flesh out
the official PHP documentation for PDO, and quite probably blogging
little handy snippets for some of the newer/more advanced features.

Thanks for your attention, and looking forward to your feedback.

--Wez.