<summary>Database Abstraction Layer</summary>
<description>
DB is a database abstraction layer providing:
- * an OO-style query API
- * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers
- * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support
- it natively
- * a result object for each query response
- * portable error codes
- * sequence emulation
- * table information interface
+* an OO-style query API
+* a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers
+* prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively
+* a result object for each query response
+* portable error codes
+* sequence emulation
+* sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
+* ordered array, associative array and object formats supported for the fetched rows
+* row limit support
+* transactions support
+* table information interface
+* DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation
DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database extensions. The
currently supported extensions are: dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix,
-msql, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, pgsql and sybase.
+msql, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, pgsql and sybase (a DB style interface
+to LDAP servers is also avaible from a separate package).
</description>
<license>PHP License</license>
<maintainers>
</maintainer>
</maintainers>
<release>
- <version>1.0</version>
+ <version>2.0</version>
<state>stable</state>
<date>2002-04-07</date>
<notes>First packaged release.</notes>