# And encourage people to use PDO instead of DBA as a replacement ;)
<para>
- However, dbm support is deprecated and you are encouraged to use the
- <link linkend="ref.dba">Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer
functions</link>
- instead.
+ DBM support is deprecated and you are encouraged to use the
+ <link linkend="ref.pdo">PHP Data Objects</link> extension instead.
</para>
Hi didou,
I don't think that change is correct, as PDO isn't a replacement for DBA
(and DBA isn't depcreated). It supports many DB engines that aren't
supported by PDO.
Nuno