ADOdb

ADOdb
Original author(s) John Lim
Developer(s) Damien Regad, Mark Newnham
Stable release 5.20.3 / January 1, 2016 (2016-01-01)
Development status Active
Written in PHP
Type Database abstraction library
License BSD / LGPL
Website adodb.org
Not to be confused with ADODB (ActiveX Data Objects Database).

ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP Originally based on the same concept as Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects. It allows developers to write applications in a consistent way regardless of the underlying database system storing the information. The advantage is that the database system can be changed without re-writing every call to it in the application.

Supported Database Systems

ADOdb supports the following databases:

Additional Features

In addition to the Database Abstraction Layer, ADOdb includes the following features:

Schema Management Tools

The product contains a suite of tools to interrogate the attributes of tables, fields and indexes in databases as well as providing cross-database schema management including a full suite of XML based functions.

Date/Time Library

The standalone Data/Time Library provides a drop-in replacement for PHP date functions, but provide access to dates outside the normal range of dates supported by normal PHP functions.

Session Management Tools

The standalone session management library allows storing of session data in a database table and/or as encrypted data.

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