[ciapug] PHP 5.1 Change Log

David Champion dave at visionary.com
Wed Nov 16 16:40:26 CST 2005


I didn't know there was a speed problem with ADODB. The PHP native 
version is pretty fast. The external c executable version is even faster.

I would be interested in hearing about a comparison of ADODB and PDO for 
perfromance and if you had to make any concessions in your code to 
handle the "missing" elements you mentioned.

-dc

Chris Van Cleve wrote:
> Yeah, it's the speed benefit I am looking to test out. ADOdb still 
> offers some features I can't live without and PDO has no comparable 
> replacements.
> 
> Chris VC
> 
> On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>> Only peeve about PDO is it didn't include any facility for 
>> reverse-engineering databases (i.e. there is no elegant way to pull 
>> meta-data out).
>>
>> On the flip side, it should provide a much needed speed improvement 
>> over PEAR::DB/ADOdb, etc.
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>> Chris Van Cleve wrote:
>>
>>> PHP 5.1 is just around the corner, and I found a site that lists the 
>>> relevant changes, additions, removals, etc.
>>> http://blog.iworks.at/?/archives/26-PHP-5.1-around-the-corner.html
>>> I have been coding in PHP 5 for several months and have not had any 
>>> problems thus far. I'm looking forward to some of these changes, 
>>> particularly regarding PDO. I've been playing with rewriting pages 
>>> relying on ADOdb to using PDO. It's been... interesting...
>>> Chris VC
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