PEAR MDB 1.3.0

PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers.<br />It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most<br />other DB abstraction packages is that MDB goes much further to ensure<br />portability. Among other things MDB features:<br />* An OO-style query API<br />* A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers<br />* Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion<br />* Portable error codes<br />* Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching<br />* Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows<br />* Prepare/execute (bind) emulation<br />* Sequence emulation<br />* Replace emulation<br />* Limited Subselect emulation<br />* Row limit support<br />* Transactions support<br />* Large Object support<br />* Index/Unique support<br />* Module Framework to load advanced functionality on demand<br />* Table information interface<br />* RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering)<br />* RDBMS independent xml based schema definition management<br />* Altering of a DB from a changed xml schema<br />* Reverse engineering of xml schemas from an existing DB (currently only MySQL)<br />* Full integration into the PEAR Framework<br />* Wrappers for the PEAR DB and Metabase APIs<br />* PHPDoc API documentation

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Platforms:	*nix, Linux
Keyword:	Advanced,  Creating,  Dropping,  Framework,  Functionality,  Indexunique,  Information,  Interface,  Large,  Limit,  Limited,  Management,  Methods,  Module,  Object,  Replace,  Sequence,  Subselect,  Table,  Transactions
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