[Databases]Using PEAR DB

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While working with databases, wouldn’t you love to concentrate on coding rather than the syntax for a particular database API. Database Abstraction is a method of coding that lets you do just that. You use generic methods to access the database, any database. Obviously, you need additional code or libraries to do database abstraction. That is where PEAR comes in. PEAR includes a database abstraction class that you can use in your scripts. There are other abstraction classes out there, but for the purpose of this tutorial we will focus on the one provided with PEAR. What is PEAR?

Essentially, PEAR gives you the developer a bunch of reusable components that follow a particular coding standard and API. This allows you to create applications that are generic enough to work on a variety of platforms with little or no modifications. PEAR provides functionality for databases, authentication, filesystem operations, networking, XML, and tons of other things. To know more about PEAR you can read the article on PEAR in our website.

Let’s concentrate on PEAR’s database abstraction layer.

Let’s just begin by looking at a few of the functions available to you in PEAR’s database abstraction class. This is by no means a complete list of functions available from PEAR. For more information about PEAR, see their website at Back

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