>> ADODB Library for PHP4



(c) 2000-2004 John Lim (jlim@natsoft.com.my)



Released under both BSD and GNU Lesser GPL library license. 

This means you can use it in proprietary products.

 

 

>> Introduction



PHP's database access functions are not standardised. This creates a 

need for a database class library to hide the differences between the 

different databases (encapsulate the differences) so we can easily 

switch databases.



We currently support MySQL, Interbase, Sybase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, 

Microsoft SQL server,  Foxpro ODBC, Access ODBC, Informix, DB2,

Sybase SQL Anywhere, generic ODBC and Microsoft's ADO. 



We hope more people will contribute drivers to support other databases.





>> Documentation and Examples



Refer to the adodb/docs directory for full documentation and examples. 

There is also a  tutorial tute.htm that contrasts ADODB code with 

mysql code.





>>> Files

Adodb.inc.php is the main file. You need to include only this file.



Adodb-*.inc.php are the database specific driver code.



Test.php contains a list of test commands to exercise the class library.



Adodb-session.php is the PHP4 session handling code.



Testdatabases.inc.php contains the list of databases to apply the tests on.



Benchmark.php is a simple benchmark to test the throughput of a simple SELECT 

statement for databases described in testdatabases.inc.php. The benchmark

tables are created in test.php.



readme.htm is the main documentation.



tute.htm is the tutorial.





>> More Info



For more information, including installation see readme.htm

or visit

           http://adodb.sourceforge.net/





>> Feature Requests and Bug Reports



Email to jlim@natsoft.com.my 





 