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<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Just a thought…<div><br></div><div>When this issue came up with Moodle, Microsoft sponsored the development required for the db abstraction.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57989">https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57989</a></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>That sounds almost like they're using something like Propel [ see <a href="http://propelorm.org">propelorm.org</a> ] whereby you define the database using XML and it generates a load of PHP code to do 'stuff'.</div><div>(Doctrine is equivalent afaik). This would probably require significant changes to the code base - i.e no embedded SQL, needing some sort of model/service layer and so on.</div><div><br></div><div>[Un]Fortunately Moodle is significantly larger in all metrics - I can't see Microsoft sponsoring Xerte :-/</div><div><br></div><div>David.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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