PDO extension

Hi Greg, 

We evaluated PDO vs MySQLi vs etc last time we made a database update and MySQLi came out on top for our purposes.

The main advantage of PDO was being able to connect to different database engines, but the support isn't seamless and we didn't want to test/support many different database engines.  We already run into issues with MariaDB which is suppose to be a clone of MySQL functionality.

So the most recent switch was from mysql_* libraries to the mysqli_* libraries.  Eventually, I want to rewrite the database layer but we'll probably write our own vs using PDO.  But it's something we would evaluate again newly at the time to see what's available on the market.

What were you wanting to do? 

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the detailed reply. It's great to know you guys are reviewing these type of things.

I don't have any specific plans or a need for using PDO - I'm happy using MySQL. It was just something I was curious about.

Thanks again,

Greg