Raja Subramanian wrote:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Vamsee Kanakala <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm not so sure. PHP is not exactly a general purpose language. It's meant
for writing web apps. And db-driven ones at that. They are bound to get big
sooner or later. Not providing for re-use and maintainability is a fairly
big omission, imho.
+1
I would image a typical use case for php is to connect to a backend
DB and generate html. In this situation, I can't understand why a DB
abstraction layer is also not a part of the standard libraries.
I can't get why mysql_*(), mysqli_(), pg_*(), etc still exist when we
have adodb, peardb, etc.
Pretty much all the languages have db specific interfaces. I know
atlteast, two reasons:
* Can't abstract away everything. The are many db specific unique
features you might want to take advantage of.
* Compatibility. Nobody wants to keep rewriting the same code over and
over again.
Rahul
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