NYCPHP Meetup

[Allen Shaw]

Brian Dailey wrote:
> So my question boils down to this: how does one balance writing code 
> that works regardless of the backend and still keep things optimized 
> for speed and clarity? Are there any generalized tips that any of you 
> can share from your experiences? 
Don't forget to ask how portable your code *needs* to be.  In the 
beginning I spent a lot of energy being concerned about this because I'd 
heard it was important, but later I realized that many of my projects 
are proprietary, not for general distribution, meaning that the chance 
of the database server changing is relatively small, and therefor 
justifying code that takes advantage of a particular db engine.  A 
couple of my projects have been released as Open Source, and wide 
adoption is a priority; therefore, for those projects, I'm willing to 
accept a slight decrease in performance in exchange for allowing the end 
user more flexibility in the choice of db.

- Allen

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Allen Shaw
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