This topic is covered a lot. Right now there are two major DB abstraction
packages, Manuel Lemos' Metabase (
http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20 ) and the one that is
distrubuted with PHP located in your distributions PEAR directory. Try both,
see which one works better for you.
Michael
Dave Haggerty wrote:
> I haven't seen this issue discussed, sorry if I missed it:
>
> My question is why are the PHP database functions so unportable? Is there a
> reason why they have to be specific to, say MySQL. It seems to me (even
> though I am an amatuer to this stuff) that the code should be much more
> easily portable from one db to another?
>
> Do most coders add an abstraction layer themselves? Or maybe people just
> don't port PHP code much and so don't worry about it?
>
> Mainly curious....
>
> Dave
>
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