Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-26 Thread Wez Furlong
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:03:04 +0800, Alan Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few suggestions.. > -- > Fetching into objects: > This really needs to be sorted out early on, and kludging support for > something that perhaps should be the default behavour is looking very mes

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Alan Knowles
A few suggestions.. -- Fetching into objects: This really needs to be sorted out early on, and kludging support for something that perhaps should be the default behavour is looking very messy: a) if you want to fetch into a specific class, make that class extend PDO... clas

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Jeff, Monday, October 25, 2004, 8:09:20 PM, you wrote: > On Oct 25, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Lukas Smith wrote: >> D Kingma wrote: >>> I just took a view at some PDO examples on the net and it looks >>> promissing. The >>> one thing that I would to see is that the fetch method accepts a >>> cl

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Jeff Moore
On Oct 25, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Lukas Smith wrote: D Kingma wrote: I just took a view at some PDO examples on the net and it looks promissing. The one thing that I would to see is that the fetch method accepts a class name as optional second parameter (when using PDO_FETCH_OBJ or PDO_FETCH_LAZY) an

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Lukas, Monday, October 25, 2004, 2:48:41 PM, you wrote: > D Kingma wrote: >> I just took a view at some PDO examples on the net and it looks promissing. The >> one thing that I would to see is that the fetch method accepts a class name as >> optional second parameter (when using PDO_FETCH_O

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Lukas Smith
D Kingma wrote: I just took a view at some PDO examples on the net and it looks promissing. The one thing that I would to see is that the fetch method accepts a class name as optional second parameter (when using PDO_FETCH_OBJ or PDO_FETCH_LAZY) and then returns a new instance of the given class wi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread D . Kingma
I just took a view at some PDO examples on the net and it looks promissing. The one thing that I would to see is that the fetch method accepts a class name as optional second parameter (when using PDO_FETCH_OBJ or PDO_FETCH_LAZY) and then returns a new instance of the given class with the given res

[PHP-DEV] Fwd: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Wez Furlong
Hmm, for some reason, gmail decided that Lukas' mail didn't go to internals, so my response didn't either... -- Forwarded message -- From: Wez Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:52:33 +0100 Subject: Re: pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roa

[PHP-DEV] pdo [was Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap]

2004-10-25 Thread Lukas Smith
Georg Richter wrote: I will be definetly be able to write this driver within the next 3 weeks. Beside the usual "overworked" reason, it's mainly the reason, that pdo has several lacks. Against the common consent from LinuxTag in June (on a meeting where most of the db maintainers participated) , We

RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-24 Thread David Zülke
> +1 on unicode support. I think not having unicode support by default > really hurts PHP in the enterprise where applications must almost always > be internationalized. I know mbstring gets the job done, but it's > really hard to evangelize PHP as a choice technology when you have to > use an ex

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-23 Thread Andi Gutmans
Hi Georg, I'm surprised at your email as the main design of PDO has been clear for sometime, although I think lacking documentation has led to it being too hard to understand *exactly* how it works (functionality wise), especially the DB specific functionality. (no not trying to hint about the d

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-23 Thread Steph
Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "George Schlossnagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Frank M. Kromann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "internals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andi Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 12:

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-23 Thread Wez Furlong
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:23:29 +0200, Georg Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be definetly be able to write this driver within the next 3 > weeks. Beside the usual "overworked" reason, it's mainly the reason, > that pdo has several lacks. I'm all ears. > Against the common consent from L

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-23 Thread Georg Richter
Am Fr, den 22.10.2004 schrieb George Schlossnagle um 4:24: Aloha namesake! > If namesake-Georg doesn't get to it in the next 3 weeks, I'll probably > take a whack at mysql 4.x driver in the second week of November. > I will be definetly be able to write this driver within the next 3 weeks. Bes

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-22 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Wez Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feature-wise, it's missing scrollable (eg: random access) cursors and > Marcus' iterators (sorry Marcus). So, when do we see iterators? Kevin - "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Lib

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-21 Thread Al Baker
+1 on unicode support. I think not having unicode support by default really hurts PHP in the enterprise where applications must almost always be internationalized. I know mbstring gets the job done, but it's really hard to evangelize PHP as a choice technology when you have to use an extension to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-21 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Frank M. Kromann wrote: Aside from that, PDO is very usable for the most common data access patterns that you are likely to use in PHP. Driver wise, we have a nice collection. The only major driver that we are missing is mysql 4.x (we have 3.x). If namesake-Georg doesn

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 roadmap

2004-10-21 Thread Frank M. Kromann
> Aside from that, PDO is very usable for the most common data access > patterns that you are likely to use in PHP. > > Driver wise, we have a nice collection. The only major driver that we > are missing is mysql 4.x (we have 3.x). The FBSQL driver is almost done, and when that happens Iøll star