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[Dan Cech]

About a year ago I looked at both PEAR::DB and ADOdb, and chose ADOdb. 
I don't remember exactly why, I think at the time ADOdb had a larger 
feature set and was under more active development.

I have had no complaints whatsoever about the speed or reliability of 
the system, and have become somewhat involved in development.

I know that Hans is vehemently against the idea of a database 
abstraction layer, but I am very much for it.  The overhead involved is 
minimal, and the gains are potentially huge.

I am currently working on a project (phpGACL 
<http://phpgacl.sourceforge.net>) which uses ADOdb and we have users 
using MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL, and IIRC Sybase.  Without 
something like ADOdb or PEAR::DB we would have no chance at being able 
to support these users.

<ShamelessPlug>ADOdb (I'm not sure if PEAR::DB has similar 
functionality) also supports a system for platform-independent data 
definitions through the ADOdb DataDictionary and adodb-xmlschema.  I'm 
doing a lot of work on both of these tools and a major release is 
scheduled to coincide with the release of ADOdb 4.12.</ShamelessPlug>

Dan

Mark Armendariz wrote:
> I've been avoiding it for quite some time for who knows why.  I've read 
> up on it every few months, and I've finally decided to truly consider 
> using it, especially since it's now being built into the PHP distro.
>  
> So am I the only loser on this board NOT using PEAR?
>  
> Mark