Posted by Manuel Lemos on 09/15/05 08:13

Hello,

on 09/13/2005 10:29 PM Oliver Grätz said the following:
> Furthermore, PHP5.1 will introduce PDO which unifies this database
> interface for all db systems. It's a native database abstraction layer.

NEWSFLASH: PDO already exists for PHP 4:

http://www.phpclasses.org/pdo

Despite of that, I do not think PDO is a compelling reason to use PHP 5.
Basically it is yet another attempt to do the same where other
abstraction layers extensions have failed like ODBC and DBX.

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.


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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