PEAR DB 1.6.0 has been released

[Analysis&Solutions]

[This has be cross-posted. Be careful when following up, please.]

Greetings:

Crack open the beer, PEAR DB 1.6.0 is here! (Hey, I'm a bit giddy
with excitement that my intense work during the past seven weeks
has come to fruition.)

For those unfamiliar with PEAR DB, it's a package of PHP classes
that provide an object oriented API with common methods of accessing
thirteen of PHP's database driver extensions:
dBase, FrontBase, InterBase, Informix, mSQL, MS SQL Server,
MySQL, Oracle, ODBC (tested with DB2 and Access), PostgreSQL,
SQLite and Sybase.

Key links for PEAR DB:

Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB
Change Log: http://pear.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=DB
Manual: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.php
Home Page: http://pear.php.net/package/DB

Notable changes since 1.5.0RC2 include:

* New portability features, making it possible to write
applications which can be easily ported between DBMS's.

* Tons of bug fixes, making the package actually work for more
than just MySQL systems.

* Improved error reporting.

* Getting prepare/execute to work the same way for all DBMS's
and allow escaping of placeholder characters.

* Deploying tableInfo() in more drivers and officially moving
it from DB_result to DB_common. See the documentation for
proper usage.

* Making the test suite simpler to use and work on both
windows and *nix platforms.

* Various optimizations, several of which were uncovered
using Zend Studio's Code Analyzer.

* Countless documentation corrections.

* Full PHP 5 compatibility.

* Requiring PHP to be at version 4.2.0 or higher.

* Deprecating quote() and quoteString().

If you're one of the lucky few people using PHP's mysqli extension,
do note that the DB file/class has been renamed from mysql4 to mysqli,
but the online documentation won't reflect this modification until
they're rebuilt on Sunday. Similarly, there are a few other features
and documentation bugs that won't show up there until then either.

Is Dutch, German or Russian your native language? The manual needs
translating into these languages. Join in by signing up for the
pear-doc mailing list at http://pear.php.net/support.php.

For those of you in and around New York City this coming
Tuesday, February 24th, I'll be giving a presentation about this at
the NYPHP meeting. See http://nyphp.org/ for more info.

If you like the changes I've made to DB since version 1.5.0RC2, make
a donation: http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/donate/donate.htm

Enjoy,

--Dan

PS: I'm not on this list/newsgroup. Just posting this as an
announcement. So, if you wish to contact me, please do so directly
or via cc.
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[Daniel Morgan]

Analysis&Soluti ons wrote:

Crack open the beer,

How often do we get the chance to be spammed by someone too rude
to read the FAQ, to lacking in respect to post in the appropriate
usenet group, or more deserving of being ignored.

Yeah ... lets celebrate a spammer trying to sell is stuff. This
must be an internet first.

When you get done being giddy try apologizing. I hope everyone
ignores your post and treats you with all the respect you have
earned.

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
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[Fernando Nunes]

Daniel Morgan wrote:

Analysis&Soluti ons wrote:

Crack open the beer,

How often do we get the chance to be spammed by someone too rude
to read the FAQ, to lacking in respect to post in the appropriate
usenet group, or more deserving of being ignored.

Yeah ... lets celebrate a spammer trying to sell is stuff. This
must be an internet first.

When you get done being giddy try apologizing. I hope everyone
ignores your post and treats you with all the respect you have
earned.

I'd bet you can call it SPAM... But PEAR is part of the open source PHP web development package.
As such, i'd call it "not bad spam" (?!). He isn't earning anything except maybe (bad?) reputation.

PEAR pretends to be a layer of abstraction between PHP and the database (yeah... it would be great to have really portable SQL :P)

Just a thought... please don't flame me and don't be "inflamed".

Regards.

[Jan M. Nelken]

Fernando Nunes wrote:

I'd bet you can call it SPAM... But PEAR is part of the open source PHP
web development package.
As such, i'd call it "not bad spam" (?!). He isn't earning anything
except maybe (bad?) reputation.

I am sure he is not only earning bad reputation; he is also shooting
himself in the foot (or perhaps in both feet).

I am sure that majority of the people posting and reading here are - or
will - subscribe to The Boulder Pledge ("Under no circumstances will I
ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited
e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass
mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my
contribution to the survival of the online community.").

So he simply rejected as potential customers majority of people posting
here.

Jan M. Nelken

[Daniel Morgan]

Fernando Nunes wrote:

Daniel Morgan wrote:

Analysis&Soluti ons wrote:

Crack open the beer,

How often do we get the chance to be spammed by someone too rude
to read the FAQ, to lacking in respect to post in the appropriate
usenet group, or more deserving of being ignored.

Yeah ... lets celebrate a spammer trying to sell is stuff. This
must be an internet first.

When you get done being giddy try apologizing. I hope everyone
ignores your post and treats you with all the respect you have
earned.

I'd bet you can call it SPAM... But PEAR is part of the open source PHP
web development package.
As such, i'd call it "not bad spam" (?!). He isn't earning anything
except maybe (bad?) reputation.

PEAR pretends to be a layer of abstraction between PHP and the database
(yeah... it would be great to have really portable SQL :P)

Just a thought... please don't flame me and don't be "inflamed".

Regards.

All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away for
free. I don't care if you personally show up, install it, configure
it train on it, and then give me a check for $50: It is still spam.

The lack of netiquette is inexcusable and the posting invites others
that are selling products and services to think such postings are
tolerated: They will not be.

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
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[Buck]

Danield Morgan,

You are an ignorant turd, as well as all the other
cry-babies complaining. What is your point? To
create more spam complaining about it? A bunch of
ignorant retarded turds.

PEAR is a contribution to not only YOUR DUMBASSES, but
to people out there that are actually intelligent enough
to use it. God what a useless lump of shit you people are.

"Daniel Morgan" <da******@x.was hington.edu> wrote in message news:1077345802 .384410@yasure. ..

Fernando Nunes wrote:

Daniel Morgan wrote:

Analysis&Soluti ons wrote:

Crack open the beer,

How often do we get the chance to be spammed by someone too rude
to read the FAQ, to lacking in respect to post in the appropriate
usenet group, or more deserving of being ignored.

Yeah ... lets celebrate a spammer trying to sell is stuff. This
must be an internet first.

When you get done being giddy try apologizing. I hope everyone
ignores your post and treats you with all the respect you have
earned.

I'd bet you can call it SPAM... But PEAR is part of the open source PHP
web development package.
As such, i'd call it "not bad spam" (?!). He isn't earning anything
except maybe (bad?) reputation.

PEAR pretends to be a layer of abstraction between PHP and the database
(yeah... it would be great to have really portable SQL :P)

Just a thought... please don't flame me and don't be "inflamed".

Regards.

All SPAM is bad spam. I don't care if you are giving it away for
free. I don't care if you personally show up, install it, configure
it train on it, and then give me a check for $50: It is still spam.

The lack of netiquette is inexcusable and the posting invites others
that are selling products and services to think such postings are
tolerated: They will not be.

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)

[Daniel Morgan]

Buck wrote:

Danield Morgan,

You are an ignorant turd, as well as all the other
cry-babies complaining. What is your point? To
create more spam complaining about it? A bunch of
ignorant retarded turds.

PEAR is a contribution to not only YOUR DUMBASSES, but
to people out there that are actually intelligent enough
to use it. God what a useless lump of shit you people are.

I find it fascinating, in an academic sort of way, that it always
turns out that those that spam are also those that first resort
to the use of obscenities when someone rains on their parade.

It would have been so simple to just say "Oops .. sorry" ... and
repost. But no you apparently feel entitled to leave your trash
where-ever you please without regard to rules, etiquette, or
other people's wishes. Well you got your wish ... and I got mine.
How many customers do you think your little temper tantrum got you?

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)

[Buck]

First of all you make the wrong assumption that I spam, secondly, implying
that I put the message out about PEAR. I have nothing to do with spam or
PEAR. I do however, read this group as well as others, and APPRECIATE news
like what was posted about PEAR. This was something we rarely see anymore,
instead it's pontificating turds like you that clog up the threads. Your
comments as well as the other turds was completely inappropriate. Internet
poop clogging up the thought waves.

Newsgroups are about information sharing, discussions, and open, public
communication. PEAR is an open source contribution, available even for
dumbshits like you. Obviously you don't understand that, as well as the
other cry-babies who had to chime in and post their ignorance. Even worse,
you have to include links to even more of your stinky ignorance.

Those that can't, teach.

Heh-heh... Now go teach!

( And change your diaper you cry-baby! It's startin ta stink! )

"Daniel Morgan" <da******@x.was hington.edu> wrote in message news:1077374028 .733831@yasure. ..

Buck wrote:

Danield Morgan,

You are an ignorant turd, as well as all the other
cry-babies complaining. What is your point? To
create more spam complaining about it? A bunch of
ignorant retarded turds.

PEAR is a contribution to not only YOUR DUMBASSES, but
to people out there that are actually intelligent enough
to use it. God what a useless lump of shit you people are.

I find it fascinating, in an academic sort of way, that it always
turns out that those that spam are also those that first resort
to the use of obscenities when someone rains on their parade.

It would have been so simple to just say "Oops .. sorry" ... and
repost. But no you apparently feel entitled to leave your trash
where-ever you please without regard to rules, etiquette, or
other people's wishes. Well you got your wish ... and I got mine.
How many customers do you think your little temper tantrum got you?

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)

[Daniel Morgan]

Buck wrote:

Those that can't, teach.

I teach 6 hours per week. I consult for companies like the one
you work for 50-60 hours per week. There is a reason employers
pay my per diem. It isn't my good looks.

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)

[Daniel Morgan]

Buck wrote:

Those that can't, teach.

I teach 6 hours per week. I consult for companies like the one
you work for 50-60 hours per week. There is a reason employers
pay my per diem. It isn't my good looks.

--
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...ad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/e...oa/aoa_crs.asp
da******@x.wash ington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)