PDO intro on SitePoint
Wez pointed to a PDO intro in Sitepoint, and posted some comments to answer few issues that he saw in comments :
- PDO is Beta now, not alpha (if you're running PHP 5.1b3 that is)
- Use pdo_drivers() if you want to see what drivers are available. The dl() function is not guaranteed to work in a lot of SAPI.
- David missed out on wez's article on PDO for IBM developerWorks, which is a bit more up to date than the OTN article.
- PDO is all C-based native code, and will, one day in the future, eventually replace the traditional database extensions.
- PDO is data access abstraction rather than database abstraction. They are not the same thing; data access abstraction is making the way you get at the data the same, whereas database abstraction is making databases look the same. Pretty big difference.
