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Posted by David Quinton on 03/13/06 09:51
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:16:28 GMT, "Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1>
wrote:
>"NC" <nc@iname.com> posted:
>> For more information, see here:
>> http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/
>> So you should avoid using abstraction layers whenever possible.
>
>Hello, NC,
>
>The link you provided might be confusing to some. It specifically
>describes their own ADODB thing, and fails to differentiate that
>from Microsoft ADODB (which may or may not be realized by
>the reader which then makes the link kind of confusing).
>
>Abstraction layers usually provide something easier to use than
>the root methods involved in connecting to databases and querying.
>Sometimes they only provide friendlier names and run the same
>code (perhaps with some error handling), so the end result may
>that the only difference involved is the time it takes to set up the
>call, and the time it takes to debunk the call, which in many cases
>is something that network connections might be the only purely
>visible wait.
I *think* (and I could be wrong) that Adodb and PhpLib also provide
some query-filtering that can help with security for people who could
otherwise be leaving themselves open to attacks?
Also Adodb now has what looks like a nice cacheing function (but I
haven't tried it)
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