> Databases - although PHP 'supports' many databases natively, the support > is in the form of 3rd party libraries with PHP wrapper functions. > Nothing inherently wrong with that, but the current method dictates that > to use oracle you use oci_ functions, for mysql you use mysql_ > functions, etc., giving rise to the 'database portability' issue. Yes, > there are db abstraction classes available in PHP, but nothing is native > to the language, and that extra layer slows things down (just like ODBC > can slow things down in the Windows world). Don't go throwing 'native > db' support around too much without backing it up with solid argument.
Michael, see ext/dbx - the abstraction doesn't get any more native than that. -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
