On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19/03/17 23:11, Rowan Collins wrote:
> >> Sorry but I just don't agree with that. We are talking about a feature
> >> for PDO that not many voters is interested in. That's completely
> >> different than a language change. The interest in other core
> >> extensions is often the same.
> >
> > Fair points. I'm not sure the RFC process as a whole works well for
> > specialist decisions - the same has come up with very technical Engine
> > changes.
>
> While PDO has gained some traction and some projects have switched over
> to it, it would be useful to see what percentage of users do actually
> take the PDO route and and those that still stay with other abstraction
> options or remain with the generic drivers. My own preference is still
> to ignore it as a base and stick with ADOdb, which does seem to be
> growing again in support, but many projects have their own abstraction
> layers which don't rely on PDO or for the likes of things like wordpress
> only support MySQL anyway so don't need a cross database layer.
>
> None of the 'improvements' added to PDO recently do anything to improve
> it's standing, it still lacks a real reason for existing ...
>

Given that most installs of Doctrine DBAL (80%+) rely on PDO MySQL, that's
quite a lot of users: https://packagist.org/packages/doctrine/dbal/stats

PDO is currently the leading DB abstraction in PHP projects, regardless of
how horrible its API is.

Marco Pivetta

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