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