Hi there, I'm a web-developer and I work with PHP as often as I can (it's infinitely preferable to ASP) and as a result of this I end up coding in lots of different environments. Our local dev server is a windows machine which acts differently to the multitude of *nix boxes which our clients run. Some have safe-mode enabled (apparently a good safety measure for a shared-hosting solution), some run with magic_quotes on, some with magic_quotes off, register globals on/off, etc etc ad nauseum. Usually this isn't much of a problem as I tend to only work on one major project at a time and I can set up our local windows box to emulate the live server, but it would be very useful to me if I could ask for your collective knowledge on building an include file (or class) of common database functions. This class would take into account whether the server has magic_quotes enabled and cater for it, different login strings depending on the environment variables (for dev and live environments) as well as catering for any other strange platform-dependent niggles that I've left out. It'd also have methods to fetch: * just one specific value from the database * an array of rows from the database * run an arbitrary query (insert/update/delete) and return success/failure and optionally populate the identity id/error message/etc.
I hasten to add that I'm not asking for someone to build this for me, but rather asking for any pointers/tips for things I should watch out for or links that might help. I've searched extensively for something like this but haven't found one that does exactly what I want. Am I re-inventing the wheel here? Does anyone else who works on multiple platforms have these problems? Many thanks (in advance) for any help, Regards, Keith <http://www.pi-squared.co.za/> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
