The problem with these somewhat defensive back-and-forths is that stuff gets lost. I already conceded that there is an abstraction in PHP, but that it's hardly being used, and, going back to the community argument, if you either learn PHP, or google around for how to do something, or hire a PHP dev off the street odds are fairly low you'll end up with PDO, and very high you'll end up with "Just go with mysql".
On Apr 29, 10:23 am, Martin Sturm <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 29, 2:10 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Replies inline. > > > On Apr 28, 10:16 am, Knubo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There's no limit, but there's no database abstraction layer either, > > *AND* each individual database package uses wildly different functions > > with different conventions in naming and e.g. parameter ordering. > > I'm sorry, but you're wrong here. There is a database abstraction > layer nowadays in PHP. It is not the nicest one found on the planet, > but it does work and it provides a generic API for using various > databases. It's called PDO, documented athttp://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php > > There are PDO drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and a bunch more > databases. And it is part of the standard PHP distribution. > > I agree PHP is not the most beautiful language on the planet, but it > is still slowly improving and for many tasks a logical choice. > > Regards, > Martin Sturm > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
