I just finished listening to Terry Chay on the Pro-PHP Podcast. Terry never hesitates to share his opinion, and it's always fun to listen to a smart guy who is passionate about what he does. You're also sure to walk away with several new quotes, such as "blood, sweat, and swear" being the key ingredients of web application development. Terry also speaks a bit about Ruby. He also comments on the podcast itself and the positive impact Marcus has had on the community.

Terry's always fun to listen to, so be sure and check out the show if you get a chance.

The design patterns you've seen so far greatly improve the readability and maintainability of script internals; however, none have confronted a fundamental requirement and challenge of architecting and developing web applications: connecting to a database. This chapter and the next two chapters-Table Data Gateway and Data Mapper-provide three design patterns that better organize how your application interacts with a database.

This pattern allows you to treat database connections (abstracted, of course) the same no matter what's behind them because their interface is handled through objects. In this tutorial, they use the ADOdb libraries to accomplish this...]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:12:12 -0600