As of now, yes because PHP4 is not really geared up for OO. But you can
start using it because they're planning to rewrite PEAR::DB using C/C++
which will eventually be an extension and can handle high loads IMO.
You can start using it right away because its a nice layer abstracting
the back-end so that you can switch your back-end without changing the
function calls (if you use ANSI compliant SQL).
But, seriously I don't know about the backward compatibility that
PEAR::DB would provide once it has been re-written.
Consult http://pear.php.net/.
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 18:13, Ankit Malhotra wrote:
Hi all,--
I would like to know if using PEAR DB conectivity in PHP would create
any issues regarding the speed of a web site interaction as the number
of connections increase. I am designing a small college database and
would at the maximum have 250 simultaneous connections (all the
students logging in to check there results.as the system will most
probably remain off line there will be a maximum of 250 local
connecions i presume. However depending upon the feedback may have to
put it on the main portal itself (which would be gr8) ). Would like to
keep the system open to usage of both PostgreSQL. and MySQL.( Also
would try to use something new :-)
Also I have used MySQL and am now shifting to PostgreSQL. Would like
to know why it is not such a common platform with PHP. Guess speed is
1 factor. But after that i think PostgreSQL is more feature rich.