[Typo3-dev] DBAL Drivers

[Florian Schaeffer]

Hello Thomas,

> Is there any general documenation about the DBAL? How it has to be 
> configured, where can I download it, or is it implementend in the core?

AFAIK DBAL _is_ already part of the core and is using ADODb-Package 
written in PHP which is already capable of connection to most of the 
DB-Servers (MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access and DB2 are the one I use it 
for in other projects)

What is more important, the extensions have to be DBAL-ready, so they 
must use the DBAL-calls to access the DB (use execSELECTquery instead of 
mysql_query and so on).

Until every extension is rewritten in that manner, "only" the core is 
DBAL-ready -> but that is already a great part of work the developers of 
the core have done.

HTH
Florian