Re: PDO support (bit of a rant)

amygdala wrote:

But yet support for it seems to be rather poor. Especially clear
documentation on how to install specific drivers. What is up with that?

PDO's documentation is truly dreadful -- not just how to install drivers,
but the whole thing -- the constants, the exceptions thrown, everything.

It's a really good interface for database programming though. I ported my
CMS from PostgreSQL to MySQL in about 20 minutes. It would have taken me
hours if I'd been using the traditional PHP functions -- and the solution
wouldn't have been as elegant. (The non-PHP script to create the database
tables and populate them with initial data took quite a bit longer to
populate. See http://tobyinkster.co.uk/tag/mysql/.)

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