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What database wrappers are available?

Sep 7th, 2000 03:23
John Lim, Nathan Wallace, Manuel Lemos

The most commonly used (and defacto standard) is PHPlib:
    http://phplib.netuse.de/
Manuel Lemos has developed one named Metabase:
    http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/browse.html/package/20
There is also PHPDB:
    http://phpdb.linuxbox.com/
For those requiring an advanced wrapper with additional functionality 
there is ADODB. This wrapper can handle dates in different formats (eg. 
#12-3-2000# for Microsoft Access and '2020-12-03' for MySQL, meta types 
so that we recognise "VARCHAR" in MSSQL is identical to type "C" in 
dBase. Has a SQL to menu function and SQL to table function. Also 
provides quote support .eg. '' in Sybase vs \' for MySQL. 
    http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB