Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-25 Thread l0t3k
"Lukas Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 008a01c1d2fb$952b4630$4d00a8c0@vandal">news:008a01c1d2fb$952b4630$4d00a8c0@vandal... > > There is currently an effort underway to merge Metabase with PEAR DB. > I have just commited the first code into the pear cvs (package is called > "MDB" for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-25 Thread l0t3k
"John Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have always wondered, how do you pronounce L0t3k? actually "low-tech". most days i dream of woodworking > Seriously, if you are duplicating Metabase's effort, but in C, > why not work with the Manu

RE: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-23 Thread Lukas Smith
> (2) im working on a database access abstraction, again inspired by Java > and > JDBC (MySQL driver is written and works, BTW). in Java you have the > Resultset.getXXX methods which gets the value of a given column as a > particular type. Java of course is strongly typed, whereas PHP is not. Is >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-23 Thread John Lim
L0t3k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > im looking for opinions on two OOP related design issues for code im > targeting to PHP5. > (2) im working on a database access abstraction, again inspired by Java and > JDBC (MySQL driver is written and wor

[PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-22 Thread l0t3k
im looking for opinions on two OOP related design issues for code im targeting to PHP5. (1) im writing (actually porting) a DateTime class which matches the functionality of the Java Date class. it actually does much more, and that's the issue. in looking at the Javadocs reference page for Date,