[Typo3-dev] DBAL - how to do it?

Andreas Otto andreas at php4win.de
Sun Feb 15 12:38:52 CET 2004


Hi Michael,

On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:17, Michael Zedeler wrote:
> Regarding 3: The situation right now is really aggrevating. As time
> passes by, more and more MySQL-dialect SQL is being hardcoded into the
> core and into modules developed by others. This means that introducing
> the DBAL only gets harder as time goes by.

I agree - it is already hard enough.

> Second, since databases do have different SQL dialects, hardcoding SQL
> in the code really isn't an option at all.
>
> I would like to suggest giving the DBAL project top priority for the
> next major release.

So you would say when 3.6 is out we get started with the integration of a 
DBAL. Until then we should work on some test scenarios like Kasper mentioned 
a couple of days ago [1], [2].

Who can provide access to a Oracle DB for testing?

[1]: http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-dev/2004-February/001645.html
[2]: APPENDIX: DBAL 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/typo3/TYPO3core/TODO.txt?rev=1.20&view=auto 


Cheers,
Andreas

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