PHP Data Object

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Good afternoon

Just wondering if there is any chance of getting the PHP PDO drivers installed ?

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Never heard of them, and nobody has ever requested them :|

The trouble is that with each PHP extension we enable, the slower its execution time gets - so we try to only enable extensions that are used frequently, by the majority of customers.

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Never heard of them, and nobody has ever requested them :|

The trouble is that with each PHP extension we enable, the slower its execution time gets - so we try to only enable extensions that are used frequently, by the majority of customers.

PDO has been around for a little while, and is therefore pretty stable. It's now included and enabled by default in the standard distributions.
The main reason it has come to my attention is that it has been adopted by the ZendFramework. There was a fair bit of discussion in the early days between the framework developers and they must have concluded that PDO was the future.
I understand the speed concerns, I suppose the only way to test the impact is by enabling it and doing some benchmarking.

[RFH Reseller: nick]

With all this talk about your upgrading of PHP, I couldn't resist coming back to this and asking if we are any closer to you deciding to try adding the PDO extensions?

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Still not had any requests for them...

Which standard distrubtion are they enabled in?

[RFH Reseller: nick]

In PHP >= 5.1 on unix systems it is included by default. Under Windows the drivers are included but not activated.
http://php.net/PDO.

ps. You have had one request for them