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PEAR::DB is a database abstraction layer providing:
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* an OO-style query API
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* portability features that make programs written for one DBMS work with other
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DBMS's
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* a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers
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* prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively
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* a result object for each query response
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* portable error codes
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* sequence emulation
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* sequential and non-sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
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* formats fetched rows as associative arrays, ordered arrays or objects
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* row limit support
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* transactions support
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* table information interface
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* DocBook and phpDocumentor API documentation
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Drivers for the following extensions pass the complete test suite and provide
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interchangeability when all of DB's portability options are enabled: fbsql,
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ibase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and
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sybase.
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WWW: http://pear.php.net/package/DB/
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