Posted by Lester Caine on 09/15/05 12:31

Kevin Waterson 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.

It is a reasonable start, but given the MAJOR differences in SQL, it is
only a start and only solves SOME of the 'standardisation' problems in
what seems a less than 'standard' way :(
Most of us need it to get a lot more support before we can even start to
consider switching to it - and the agro caused by now having apparently
*FIVE* versions of PHP on the go does not help .....
( PHP4.3.x - PHP4.4.0 - PHP5.0.5 - PHP5.1.x and PHP6 ALL of which
require work moving even existing applications between them !!! )

Having to go BACK to fix problems introduced by PHP4.4 when the main
development effort is PHP5 is simply a waste of resources - for a
'problem' that should perhaps have been picked up a lot sooner so that
the 'use' of it in many libraries could have been prevented in the first
place ?
Many people can't even fix the errors because they are in third party
libraries - so the ISP's HAVE to drop back to 4.3 ? But it would be nice
to see an orderly move to a SINGLE PHP codebase ?

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Lester Caine
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