On Thursday 10 February 2005 02:24 am, Kristian Rink wrote: > Hmmm, then please take a look at the collection of stuff at www.cpan.org > and show me something similar for PHP. :) http://pear.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php http://pecl.php.net/ > [DB access] > > * PHP can access virtually every known SQL source as well. > > Oh, so did they finally get rid of functions like mysql_connect() in > favor of something more abstract at this level of API? That > would be a good thing, after all... The old functional API is still there but deprecated[*] as of PHP5. PEAR::DB and ADODB have been around for years now. http://pear.php.net/package/MDB/ [perl DBI style] http://adodb.sourceforge.net/ [MS ADO style] http://creole.tigris.org/ [JDBC style] * maybe not officially, but since PHP5 is OO-focused then you shouldn't see it in any new, quality code