Posted by Kevin Waterson on 09/15/05 12:08

This one time, at band camp, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote:


> The matter is that PDO does not offer real database independence, so
> application developers that want to not have to deal with the important
> aspects that are different among databases will still have to deal them
> in their applications making their applications non-portable.

The point of PDO is not to gain database independence, rather a very
real attempt to create a standard database interface for PHP. This
it succeeds in doing.

Kevin

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