he PHP drawbacks that we have found are predominantly in its weak abstraction for databases (each database back-end is accessed through a different interface), underdeveloped library mechanism (lacking Perl's true ‘module’ concept) and occasional linguistic quirks.
PEAR provides DB abstraction library (PEAR DB , iirc). However I prefer ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP (http://adodb.sourceforge.net/). As for the library mechanism, it can be achieved by using "require_once" .
Your mileage may vary :-) -- Raj Shekhar, System Administrator Media Web India http://www.netphotograph.com
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