On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:59 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> David McGlone wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 08:45 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
> >> > David McGlone wrote:
> >>> > > can anyone suggest any good up to date books out there on php& adodb.
> >> > The only documentation on ADOdb is the website
> >> > http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#docs ... has ANYBODY seen it described in a php book?
> >> > While I have bought a couple of php books, the on-line material is always more
> >> > up to date and asking often fills in gaps that one had not even thought of.
> >> >
> > Thanks Lester. I've been playing around with it a lot, but haven't got
> > as comfortable with is as I was with PEAR. :-/
>
> I started with PHP just before PHP5 was finally released, so never used PHP4,
> and found ADOdb very early on so have never used anything else. One gets stuck
> in one's way when something simply works ... Probably why I'm finding PDO such a
> backwards step having been spoilt by the transparent cross db support ADOdb
> provides. I only use Firebird in production, but pulling stuff from other data
> sources is a doddle nowadays.
Sadly this is true. quite a few times already I've thought about just
going back to PEAR. It doesn't have much to do with the code itself,
it's more of that "at home" feel.
I also have these thoughts that if PEAR went belly up, so could ADOdb.
Scary thought indeed. :-/
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David M.
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