On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

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> marius adrian popa wrote:
> >>> Marius - how are you finding pdo_firebird working? I ask because we are
> >>> currently trying to work out what does and does not work as part of a
> >>> drive to get PDO2 soted and targets created ;)
> >> some basic stuff works but still i have some issues with the drupal
> >> Now i will try to make it work with pdo1 , for pdo2 i have said that
> >> first we need to fix the bugs in 1 and after that
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> >> we should go to pdo2 , maybe we can borrow some stuff from jdbc / ruby ...
> > php active record looks interesting , i have used something similar in cakephp
> > http://www.phpactiverecord.org/
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> Well it might be if it did not use PDO ;)

Now i have seen it
http://github.com/kla/php-activerecord/blob/master/lib/Connection.php

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> I think that there needs to be some agreement in the PHP camp as to just
> what PDO is supposed to be. People are 'developing' the generic drivers
> with all sorts of new features, and then expecting PDO to support them
> where in reality the feature should simply be part of PDO. AsyncQuery is
> an example. It's being developed in the MySQL driver, but it's pure PHP,
> so could just as easily work with any database, and even cross database
> if the time was spent developing it in PDO instead ....
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> the PDO development list IS trying to come up with a roadmap and sort
> out what needs fixing in the current version, but already there are
> discussions on the side about the next version and how it should change!

I guess we can continue the discussion there :)

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