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Mon, 30 May 2011 08:56

Erwin Moller
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On 5/26/2011 7:48 PM, Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(JohnT)
>
>> Looks like real overkill to me.
>> Do you really need to use PDO ?
>> Whats wrong with the regular PHP mysql_XXXX() functions ?
>
> The mysql_* functions are a bit outdated and mysqli_* isn't as elegant
> as PDO. Nothing wrong with using it, especially if you want to use some
> "advanced" features like prepared statements. It's a nice and clean
> interface and easy to encapsulate and extend in your own DB class as
> already mentioned.
>
> Micha

I second that. I have been using PDO in my latest projects, and I like
it so far.
Only thing to take care of is dates. (I Insert them as a string and
Postgresql happily takes them correctly, but this could give problems on
other backends.)

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Erwin Moller

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