On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:59 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 08:45 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> >> >  David McGlone wrote:
> >>> >  >  can anyone suggest any good up to date books out there on php&   
> >>> > adodb.
> >> >  The only documentation on ADOdb is the website
> >> >  http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#docs  ... has ANYBODY seen it described 
> >> > in a php book?
> >> >  While I have bought a couple of php books, the on-line material is 
> >> > always more
> >> >  up to date and asking often fills in gaps that one had not even thought 
> >> > of.
> >> >
> > Thanks Lester. I've been playing around with it a lot, but haven't got
> > as comfortable with is as I was with PEAR. :-/
> 
> I started with PHP just before PHP5 was finally released, so never used PHP4, 
> and found ADOdb very early on so have never used anything else. One gets 
> stuck 
> in one's way when something simply works ... Probably why I'm finding PDO 
> such a 
> backwards step having been spoilt by the transparent cross db support ADOdb 
> provides. I only use Firebird in production, but pulling stuff from other 
> data 
> sources is a doddle nowadays.

Sadly this is true. quite a few times already I've thought about just
going back to PEAR. It doesn't have much to do with the code itself,
it's more of that "at home" feel.

I also have these thoughts that if PEAR went belly up, so could ADOdb.
Scary thought indeed. :-/ 

-- 
David M.


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