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PDO Project Relaunch
Mitch Pirtle
2007-08-16

Hi folks, after next week I'll be making some commits to the svn repository so you can test the PDO driver for the Joomla 1.5 series.

Been crazy busy for a while, but managed to get the driver going.

PDO database driver project announced
Mitch Pirtle
2007-04-10

Finally! I've been talking about this for years, and now I am in the position to actually do something about it. This project brings PDO goodness to Joomla 1.5.

If you ever wanted to run Joomla without MySQL, this project is for you. If you ever wanted to write your own application on the 1.5 framework and desired the comfy warm fuzziness of prepared statements, then this project is for you. SQ...

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Description

Use the PDO driver on PHP 5+ sites to
take advantage of the platform-neutral
capabilities.

It is intended to produce a working
test suite for verification of the
different database engines supported by
PDO, in the hopes that we can use that
information to provide the roadmap for
Joomla becoming truly database agnostic
some day.

For now MySQL and PostgreSQL support is
planned, with other databases such as
DB2, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server
coming after.

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Mitch Pirtle

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Development Status: 1 - Planning
Intended Audience: Developers,
System Administrators
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Programming Language: PHP
Topic: Core Enhancements,
Database Management