On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:49:48PM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote :
> > From: Joao Prado Maia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > My personal opinion is that the OOP layer idea is pretty bad. Instead
> of
> > having 7 or 8 set of functions to learn, now the newbie will have 8
> set of
> > functions / APIs. The idea might sound very sexy and everything, but
> the
> > real problem is that there is already _some_ talks in PEAR-DEV about
> > trying to create a unified API for all databases (a new one, not
> PEAR::DB)
> > which would be eventually be ported to C.
>
> yes I second this
>
> > From: Phil Driscoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > feels 'all wrong' and 'not php'. I'm particularly concerned that we
> > don't create functionality which is only accessible by OO means.
>
> Yes I also see a danger there.
> Procedural is still the method choosen by most newbies and also used a
> lot of established (php) professionals.
> So what ever we do, we should always provide atleast the same level of
> functionality without the OO interface
What tells you that? I see more OO code then procedureal when
I browser through misc. sources.
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