Mika Tuupola

In the latest edition of International PHP Magazine Daniel Convissor gives an overview of the new Features in the PEAR::DB 1.6.x releases. The article is called PEAR DB: Ripe for the Picking.

Two solid months of tilling the proverbial soil, committing over 500 bits of fertilizer and squishing 90 documented bugs—and countless undocumented ones—has brought PEAR’s most popular package to a new state of maturity. It is stable and fully tested on most of the supported DBMS’s. The new release focuses on portability, allowing you to write applications that can be used with a wide variety of database back-ends.