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. 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.

Features

ADOdb supports the following databases: * Firebird *

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Legacy, unsupported or obsolete drivers may still be found in older releases of ADOdb. In addition to the Database Abstraction Layer, ADOdb includes the following features: * Schema management tools: 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 and 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: allows storing session data in a database table or as encrypted data

References

External links

* {{Official website, adodb.org
SourceForge project page
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