         VERSION=1.6.4
          
         UPDATED=20050408
           SPELL=PEAR-DB
        WEB_SITE=http://pear.php.net/package/DB/
      LICENSE[0]=PHP
           SHORT='PEAR: Database Abstraction Layer'
cat << EOF
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
* a DSN (data source name) format for specifying
 database servers
* 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
* row limit support
* transactions support
* table information interface
* DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation

DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing
database extensions.  The currently supported
extensions are:
dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix,
msql, mssql, mysql, mysqli,
oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase.

DB is compatible with both PHP 4 and PHP 5.
EOF


