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  1. DB is a database abstraction layer providing:
  2. * an OO-style query API
  3. * portability features that make programs written for one DBMS work with other DBMS's
  4. * a DSN (data source name) format for specifying database servers
  5. * prepare/execute (bind) emulation for databases that don't support it natively
  6. * a result object for each query response
  7. * portable error codes
  8. * sequence emulation
  9. * sequential and non-sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
  10. * formats fetched rows as associative arrays, ordered arrays or objects
  11. * row limit support
  12. * transactions support
  13. * table information interface
  14. * DocBook and PHPDoc API documentation
  15. DB layers itself on top of PHP's existing database
  16. extensions. The currently supported extensions are:
  17. dbase, fbsql, interbase, informix, msql, mssql, mysql,
  18. mysqli, oci8, odbc, pgsql, sqlite and sybase.