Hello everyone, in combination with the Zend_Entity and Zend_Db_Mapper proposals I felt the need for an extension of Zend_Db_Expr. This functionality would also be a huge step for Zend_Db_Select to abstract vendor specific functionality even more.
A common expression object offers access to abstract from vendor specfic syntax of building database queries, conditions, functions and such. It should implement as much common functionality of the current supported database drivers as possible. http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Db_Expr+Extension+-+Benjamin+Eberlei The expression object utilizes Zend_Db_Expr when necessary and offers convenience functionality to escape the inputs correctly. I hope you can give me valuable feedback! Additionally, this is a funny request, but I would be glad if anyone would take this proposal from me and implement it, so I can focus on the Entity and Mapper proposals. I guess its easy to implement, unittest and document once you have found the subset of functionality that should be supported and the public API is fixed. greetings, Benjamin -- Benjamin Eberlei http://www.beberlei.de
