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| author | Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-12-24 22:59:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-12-24 22:59:18 +0000 |
| commit | 7828dac949909f7bebf14e8fe4dcf71666da5b2b (patch) | |
| tree | 957deedb793190746447bb2ffc0a9edb3a903c14 /databases/adodb/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 32927a04e9204cce6392349cc6a98a7ac18266be (diff) | |
| download | ports-7828dac949909f7bebf14e8fe4dcf71666da5b2b.tar.gz ports-7828dac949909f7bebf14e8fe4dcf71666da5b2b.zip | |
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diff --git a/databases/adodb/pkg-descr b/databases/adodb/pkg-descr index 3ce6e2a30523..4e7e12499a71 100644 --- a/databases/adodb/pkg-descr +++ b/databases/adodb/pkg-descr @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ -From the Introduction: +ADOdb stands for Active Data Objects Data Base. -PHP is a wonderful language for building dynamic web pages. -Unfortunately, PHP's database access functions are not standardised. -Every database extension uses a different and incompatibile API. -This creates a need for a database class library to hide the differences -between the different databases (encapsulate the differences) so we can -easily switch databases. +ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP. -ADODB stands for Active Data Objects Data Base. +The PHP version currently supports an amazing number of databases, +thanks to the wonderful ADOdb community: +MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL, Foxpro, +Access, ADO, Sybase, FrontBase, DB2, SAP DB, SQLite, Netezza, LDAP, and generic +ODBC, ODBTP. -ADODB currently supports: - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Oracle, MS SQL 7 - Foxpro, Access, ADO, Sybase, DB2 and generic ODBC. +The Sybase, Informix, FrontBase and PostgreSQL, Netezza, LDAP, ODBTP drivers +are community contributions. WWW: http://adodb.sourceforge.net |