Hi,
I have read the latest presentation by Rasmus Lerdorf about PHP , in which he mentions about Database Abstraction Layers(similar to perl's DBI or Microsofts ODBC) ..
it says something like this(with Example)
A database abstraction layer is bundled with PHP 4. In the example below, the only thing you would need to change to use a different
database is the odbc word on the third line.
<?php
require_once 'DB.php';
$db = DB::connect('odbc://user:pw@host/mydb');
$stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT * FROM comments');
$result = $db->execute($stmt);
while($row = $db->fetchrow($result)) {
while($row as $field => $value ) {
echo "$field: $value<br>\n";
}
}
$db->disconnect();
?>
does he mean to say that if i change odbc to mysql in the above code i will be able to change my database to mysql and there is no need to change other code which i have already written. if it is so .. can someone tell me more about this feature or any open source links from where i can get more information (or the link from where i can download the file DB.php mentioned in the code segment above).
Thanks in Advance,
Danny ....
