>Now for the $15,000 question: does anyone else agree with this ? If >PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a >library ? a) unifed API You havn't to think about the name of the command to send a query, connecting...
b) it offers helpful functionality I.e. don't care about quoting and escaping in SQL-Statments, the query command does it for you. PEAR:DB contains different possibilties to access the result set... (Yes you can write such functions too, but why recreate the wheel?) c) _helps_ to keep portability You have 'only' to change the SQL-statments, not the functions. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
