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XML and PHP
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XML and PHP

by Vikram Vaswani
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 53m
English
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Metabase

Metabase is a database abstraction layer for SQL-compliant databases. Developed by Manuel Lemos as an open-source software project, Metabase is available under the BSD license, and can be downloaded from http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/20.html.

Design Goals

Metabase was designed to accomplish two main goals:

  • Provide a database-independent API for PHP applications

  • Provide a database-independent mechanism for maintaining and updating database schema

Metabase accomplishes the first goal using just PHP, and the second using a combination of PHP and XML.

Application Components

Metabase consists of the following components, implemented as PHP classes:

  • A database-independent public interface, or API, that developers can use ...

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