[ale] PHP SQL parser (was: DB abstraction for PHP)

[John Wells]

Jenn,

Could you outline briefly the problems you've run into with PearDB?

Thanks for the help!

John

J.M. Taylor said:
> John,
>
> I've been looking for about a year and have yet to find what you're
> talking about...you want true abstraction.  PEAR doesn't do much IMHO.
>
> So far what I've done is write a wrapper script that handles the db
> connection based on a paramter, and returns your result in an array of
> assoc arrays.  In *theory* it works great (and it sure does make calling
> the DB easier) but in practice I've never tried it on vastly different
> DBs and frankly have no knowledge of how cross-db my SQL statements
> would really be. :(
>
> What you (and I) really want is a PHP SQL parser.  It's on my list of
> things to write but it's so far away that I'm afraid I can't be of any
> more help than to offer the wrapper script.
>
> Anyone know of any other resourses for this?
>
> Jenn
>
>
> John Wells said:
>> Can anyone suggest a very mature db abstraction solution for PHP?  I'd
>> like to support at the very least Oracle, MySql, and optionally
>> Postgres.  SqlServer would be nice as well, but not a requirement.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
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