Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released From: Marko Karppinen (markonen <email protected>)
Date: 11/17/99

First of all, warning. I know enough about OSS to understand that I should
really know better and refrain from posting this at all. I just couldn't
help myself, so get ready for some capitalist-pig commentary.

on 17.11.1999 18:15, Andi Gutmans at andi <email protected> wrote:

> I personally don't think that having this abstraction layer in the core of
> PHP is really any better than having it in PHPLIB. On the contrary, it's
> probably much more extendible and easier to debug when it's not written in
> pure C.

I agree with Eli on this one -- I think database abstraction should be a
priority in the development of future PHP versions.

I'm more a marketer than a coder, though, so bear with me for a second.
I see two major trends pushing PHP usage forward at the moment:

 - Increasing number of Application Service Providers (ASPs) supporting
   PHP. This effectively means that PHP has gained entrance to a
   pre-selected group of software products that hosting customers can
   select their platform from. This used to be the exclusive domain of
   Perl/CGI and Microsoft-based solutions

 - The increasing availability of ready-made, off-the-shelf PHP-based
   solutions. These range from complete web based collaboration
   environments to logistics systems -- great stuff, if you ask me.

I think the combination of these two -- end users being able to
utilize hosted, ready-made PHP software -- is the holy grail that
could single-handedly cause a ten-fold increase in PHP usage.

The role of the PHP Group here is, of course, to define the lowest
common denominator that is the de-facto PHP platform. And, for
more reasons than one, I feel that uniform database access should
be a part of that platform.

Marko

PS, I'm willing to arrange resources for the completition of such a project. 

-- 
markonen <email protected> -- http://magenta.net/marko/

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