Introduction

• PEAR: PHP Extension and Application Repository
• PEAR's DB Package Handles 13 of PHP's database extensions
  • dBase,
  • FrontBase,
  • InterBase,
  • Informix,
  • mSQL,
  • MS SQL Server,
  • MySQL,
  • MySQLi,
  • Oracle,
  • ODBC (tested DB2 & Access),
  • PostgreSQL,
  • SQLite,
  • Sybase
• But, it doesn't abstract everything
• This presentation covers concepts that need to be addressed
• And a way to address them, not the way to