Re: [PHP-DB] php adodb book suggestins

2012-01-27 Thread David McGlone 
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:59 +, Lester Caine wrote:
 David McGlone wrote:
  On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 08:45 +, 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. :-/ 

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Re: [PHP-DB] php adodb book suggestins

2012-01-27 Thread Lester Caine 

David McGlone wrote:

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. :-/


I do my own mods to ADOdb ;) So it does not bother me, certainly a LOT less than 
having to cope with all the 'improvements' in PHP itself!


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