RE: [PHP] Re: PHP versus all other languages

2001-11-16 Thread Chris Bailey
PEAR is another db abstraction layer, and potentially will be integrated into PHP. I use it for all my DB access (in PHP) now. In fact, I'd say it's more powerful and easier than using the mysql_ methods for example. PEAR uses the standard factory design pattern to determine which DB it's

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP versus all other languages

2001-11-16 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, Chris Bailey wrote: PEAR is another db abstraction layer, and potentially will be integrated into PHP. I use it for all my DB access (in PHP) now. In fact, I'd say it's more powerful and easier than using the mysql_ methods for example. PEAR is essencially a Perl DBI clone, so it