[TYPO3-dev] ADOdb vc PDO

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Jigal van Hemert schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Can someone explain what is so great about ADOdb compared to PDO? I've
> spend some time reading the documentation, but almost everything was
> already covered by PDO IIRC. The only disadvantage of PDO was the fact
> that the Oracle driver was marked experimental and ADOdb had a few (yet
> still very few) query building functions.
> 
> If ADOdb had extensive database independent query building capabilities it
> would've been a super abstraction layer. Now I'm a bit uncertain about its
> advantages.
> 
> Please enlighten me :-)

I guess this is because the DBAL is a bit older than PHP5.
I remember some discussions on the technology to use and we ended up 
with adoDB since it was the most suiting solution at that time.

> N.B. In the distant past I've used my own lazy-programmers-MySQL-class and
> after the first signs of PDO in PHP5 I wrote a PHP4 version of it (MySQL
> only, because it was the only db I had to use). I've never felt the need
> for ADOdb...

Me neither until a client insisted on MSSQL server for the TYPO3 install.

cheers
Mathias