Introduction

Introduction – A feature overview

MDB2 Description

PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers.

It provides a common API for all support RDBMS. The main difference to most other database abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further to ensure portability. Among other things MDB2 features:

  • An OO-style query API
  • A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers
  • Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion
  • Portable error codes
  • Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
  • Ability to make buffered and unbuffered queries
  • Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows
  • Prepare/execute (bind) emulation
  • Sequence emulation
  • Replace emulation
  • Limited Subselect emulation
  • Row limit support
  • Transactions support
  • Large Object support
  • Index/Unique support
  • Module Framework to load advanced functionality on demand
  • Table information interface
  • RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering)
  • Full integration into the PEAR Framework
  • PHPDoc API documentation

Currently supported RDBMS:

  • MySQL
  • MySQLi (PHP5 only)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Frontbase (unmaintained)
  • Querysim
  • Interbase/Firebird (PHP5 only)
  • MSSQL
  • SQLite

Installation

When you install PEAR MDB2, you only get the base classes, but you also need to install the driver of the appropriate DBMS to have a working installation. For instance, to install the MySQL and the PostgreSQL drivers, you have to run these commands:


$ pear install MDB2

$ pear install MDB2#mysql

$ pear install MDB2#pgsql

Still having problems? Check the F.A.Q.

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