Re: PEAR DB - Useful?

From: Jan Pieter Kunst (devnull_at_cauce.org)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:54:40 +0100

ryan@carsonworkshops.com wrote:
> What are people's thoughts on this class? IMHO, it seems like it's
> overkill for what most developers need.
>
> I've been using it for awhile now, and I tend to use only about 3% of
> it's functionality.
>
> Thoughts? Opinions?

I use it and like it, even if the part I like is only ..% of its
functionality. What I like:

- central error reporting, no "or die()" all over the place

- nice shortcuts for getting single values or arrays in one pass,
without looping (getOne(), getCol(), getAssoc())

- automatic escaping of values with prepared statements:

$query = 'insert into table (field1, field2) values(?,?)';
$pear_db_object->query($query, array($raw_data1, $raw_data2));

JP 

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