<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 15 Oct 2013, at 17:56, Pat @ Pgogy <<a href="mailto:xerte@pgogywebstuff.com">xerte@pgogywebstuff.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">this is sort of why I think we needed a bigger set of goals for stuff<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Indeed.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>This has been coming for ages, but everyone at the moment is sort of solving their own problems (so to speak), and so this wasn't ever going to become a big deal, but is eventually going to stop everything.</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Most of the XOT code is heading to being almost 5 years old now, stuff like was always going to happen without a sort of core development thread going on</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I added 'db_query', 'db_query_one' function calls ages ago (see <a href="https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/develop/website_code/php/database_library.php">https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/develop/website_code/php/database_library.php</a> ) which do try to allow for the migration away from direct use of the PHP mysql driver (i.e. you could swap to use mysqli / mysqlnd or PDO or whatever easily enough). However, the last time I looked there was plenty of the codebase which still had 'mysql_query()' calls (or other mysql_ calls).</div><div><br></div><div>In an ideal world, the SQL which is embedded everywhere would be living in some sort of model class/library and be portable (or different files would be used for different databases) - so the project could run on SQLite/PostgreSQL/MSSQL etc but I suspect this would be difficult to achieve.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks,</div><div>David.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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