[PHP-DB] Which Database Abstraction Layer ?

seems to have a good feature set and doc but I've heard its bloated. I looked on the web and the only info I found was outdated. Does anybody have pointers that could help me make up my mind ? TIA -- Jean-Philippe Côté http://www.jpcote.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) T

Re: [PHP-DB] Which Database Abstraction Layer ?

- speed - ease of use and implementation - portability Thank you. -- Jean-Philippe Côté http://www.jpcote.com > You're just going to get more opinions and rumors asking questions like > this. Download both, implement both, run your own benchmarks and > determine which one works best

Re: [PHP-DB] Which Database Abstraction Layer ?

Quoting Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am sure if I started again now I would probably be using something > other than ADOdb. But at the time it fitted the bill and where there > were problems they were quickly cleared. Unlike some of the other > options I tried. May I ask which other ones

[PHP-DB] MySQLi connection character set problem

Greetings! How can I set the connection character encoding that will be used by mysqli to talk to a MySQL 4.1.8 database (from PHP 5.0.3) ? I want to use UTF-8 all the way. The data that PHP sends to the database is in UTF-8 already and all my tables are using UTF-8 as well. The only problem is

Re: [PHP-DB] MySQLi connection character set problem

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed. It seems I got tricked by what I expected the mysqli_character_set_name function to do. It seems this function only "returns the DEFAULT character set for the database connection" (quoted from manual) and not the actual character set defined. For example,