Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14762 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 45013 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Feb 2005 17:32:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 44998 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2005 17:32:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Feb 2005 17:32:24 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.184.196 wproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.233.184.196:33262] helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD (r4105:4106)) with SMTP id E1/10-30278-8294A024 for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:32:24 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 63so125893wri for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:32:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=jyhYYlCztkAkj6fnZQbfoFTcbjE+iHHREz7piivQb94EzYZwRtFGJ48UgUq9FLZzM9q4ZrQRrKxQS+vyZU+B/z3MPEcFIrGddZypHwpw9+9pfm70ENw4T/o/bcggcLYE4e87LE/aTPMgKdb0vLQ5GQQ+wcHaNFgnWt24IQcXNn4= Received: by 10.54.19.28 with SMTP id 28mr11856wrs; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.59.22 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:25:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4e89b42605020909254ee032f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:25:32 -0500 Reply-To: Wez Furlong To: Lester Caine Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <420A4557.7060509@lsces.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4e89b42605020821554c1ba198@mail.gmail.com> <20050209083714.12464.qmail@lists.php.net> <4e89b42605020907043c839b71@mail.gmail.com> <20050209162402.13541.qmail@lists.php.net> <4e89b42605020908416598396f@mail.gmail.com> <420A4557.7060509@lsces.co.uk> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: Announce: PDO beta releases From: kingwez@gmail.com (Wez Furlong) On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:16:07 +0000, Lester Caine wrote: > Not into Oracle ;) , but it answers the main questions. PDO is not > planned to be a replacement for ADOdb. Correct. > > No. That is something for another layer. PDO is intended to be a > > very light layer with minimal interference. > > Until all engines can use the same SQL there is little point in a > generic layer that means you have to re-engineer the queries when ever > you switch engines ? Unless it is very much faster than the existing > drivers, in which case I'd switch the Firebird ADOdb driver to use it :) > So I'm looking at a different level of the Abstraction Model. One of the major aims of PDO is to eventually replace the existing database extensions in PHP, not to provide total abstraction (which is a impossible goal in the opinions of many seasoned developers). --Wez.