11 lines
657 B
PHP
11 lines
657 B
PHP
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Doctrine_DB is a wrapper for PDO database object. Why should you consider using Doctrine_DB instead of PDO?
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1. It provides efficient eventlistener architecture, hence its easy to add new aspects to existing methods like on-demand-caching
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2. Doctrine_DB lazy-connects database. Creating an instance of Doctrine_DB doesn't directly connect database, hence
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Doctrine_DB fits perfectly for application using for example page caching.
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3. It has many short cuts for commonly used fetching methods like Doctrine_DB::fetchOne().
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4. Supports PEAR-like data source names as well as PDO data source names.
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