[firebird-php] PDO Driver

Lester Caine wrote:
> Anybody else had a play with the pdo_firebird driver?
>
> I'm not making much progress, and getting my head bitten of on PECL list
> for complaining that PDO seems half baked, but I would like to know that
> It's not just me ;)
hmm is quite experimental - i have'nt used , first time saw it

some words about it
http://ro.php.net/pdo
>
> One camp seems to think that php_interbase and the other drivers will be
> killed off when PDO is the standard, the other camp ( which I subscribe
> to ) think that PDO simply can't handle the complexities of the engines
> like the native drivers do :(

Is like ADO ? or what is the sense of another db extension (wrapper to
drivers)
UPDATE:
maybe because is an PECL extension (and is the rigth way to install external drivers/wrappers
no need to recompile php)

What is PECL?

PECL is a repository for PHP Extensions, providing a directory of all known extensions and hosting facilities for downloading and development of PHP extensions.

The packaging and distribution system used by PECL is shared with its sister, PEAR.
http://pecl.php.net/package/pdo

UPDATE:

Lester Caine responded
"It's not a wrapper to the existing drivers, it replaces them completely - hence the problem. The 'sales pitch' is that PDO will 'standardise the DB data interface' and remove the incompatibilities between drivers. The new drivers will supposedly not restrict using advanced facilities, but at present it's a sort of trimmed down 'BDE' with the lowest common set of functions across 5 and a 1/2 engines ( it has an interface for ODBC ;) ). So it's not in a state where it can replace php_interbase or the other native drivers, but there seems to be confusion over whether it WILL replace them in the future or it is just another driver?"