Re: PEAR DB - Useful?

From: Chung Leong (chernyshevsky_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/08/05


Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:20:24 -0500


"ryan@carsonworkshops.com" <google@carsonsystems.com> wrote in message
news:1105175181.455425.137920@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> What are people's thoughts on this class? IMHO, it seems like it's
> overkill for what most developers need.

Overkill isn't the right word. I would say it just doesn't work that well in
most situations. Unless your application performs very basic queries, the
class buys you little in terms of cross platform compatibility, as most
advanced queries requires vendor specific SQL syntax. This "then it'll work
with any database!" argument is rather bogus anyway, since few people have
the resources to actually QA the different setups.



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