[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released From: Randy Jay Yarger (ryarger <email protected>)
Date: 11/17/99

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

> Besides, things like DBI limit you to the lowest common denominator as
> far as functionality is concerned.

Are you sure about that? I use MySQL specific things in DBI applications
all the time. If I need to port them to another RDBMS all I need to do is
hunt to for the $dbh->func calls for database-specific functions.

There is a lot to be said for abstraction. There is also alot to be said
for having abstraction in the core as writing 'pure core' PHP makes it
trivial to move to another PHP-aware system. Using PHPLIB limits you to
systems with PHPLIB installed. 

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