[Linux4christians] Re:Forum

l4c l4c at thelinuxlink.net
Thu Apr 27 10:18:52 EDT 2006


JimD wrote:
> Any reason to not upgrade yet?  I find PHP 5 to have a nice little speed
> increase.  The mysql_ stuff still works as normal.  PDO is just a
> universal abstraction layer.  It is simialr to ADO/ADO.Net that is used
> on MS Windows.  It allows you to write database code without having to
> get locked in to one database.  Since PDO is a compiled part of PHP, or
> a module, it is very fast, unlike some of the code-based abstraction
> layers I have tried.
> 
> Jim
  Yeah, unfortunately I use it for work too.  I'll be stuck on php4 for 
a good while yet I think.


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