Kalle,
Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
2010/6/15 Ilia Alshanetsky <i...@prohost.org>:
There is way too much code that uses ext/mysql and ext/mysql does not depend
on a legacy library, I don't think we can remove it. As far as mssql, it is
the one way to talk to Microsoft SQL from *nix systems, until there are good
alternatives for a direct interface, I don't think we should remove it.
FreeTDS have an odbc wrapper, which means that it will work with
ext/odbc and pdo_odbc aswell, the migration is rather simple here and
i think it will be beneficial for both us and the users.
As for mysql, I know libmysql is maintained, which is fine and all,
but I think its time to deprecate it and consider removing it in
favour of mysqli which we have been trying to promote. Like johannes
said, a wrapper could be written in either native php, or in C level
and im willing to help out with that, if thats the way we need to do
it.
since ages a tool exists : http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Converting_to_MySQLi
which converts calls to mysql in calls to mysqli. The result might not
be pretty but works. As far as I recall it was tested with phpMyAdmin
and worked.
Tutorials and articles that builds on mysql is unfortunate when we
want to prommote mysqli, but if we want to change it, i think now is
better than never, because people will continue to write articles
about it if its still exists within the main distro.
Andrey
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