Posted by Benjamin on 05/16/07 02:38

On May 15, 8:51 pm, "rickycorn...@gmail.com" <rickycorn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> On past projects in PHP4 I had always just written my own libraries to
> deal with database interaction. Somehow I was operating in the dark
> that there were all these database abstraction things available that
> made my work on the libraries I made from scratch a waste of time.
>
> So now I've started researching all these things that are available,
> and I have to say I am a little confused. It's a matter of
> understanding the level of abstraction in all of these different
> projects. For example:
>
> PEAR::DB, PDO, Creole, Propel, etc.
>
> Propel, for example, seems to be a much higher level of abstraction
> than PDO. Are there similar projects that compete with the level of
> abstraction that Propel offers? Where are these various projects on
> the abstraction totem pole?
PDO merely provides connection abstraction; this means you connect to
any database server abstractly but the SQL is not changed.

PEAR::DB has been replace by PEAR::MDB2. It offers both connection
abstraction and SQL abstraction (your SQL should work on any server) I
haven't tried the others, but I love this one.
>
> This is my first post, hope I'm not making myself sound like a fool.
> Thanks a lot in advance for anyone with insight on this.
No, your not a fool.
>
> Ricky

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