PHP Magazine has a new article posted covering some of the cool new features included in the 1.6.x releases of PEAR DB.

What is PEAR DB? PEAR DB provides a common object oriented Application Programming Interface (API) for 13 of PHP's database extensions: dBase, FrontBase, InterBase/Firebird, Informix, mSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MySQLi, Oracle, ODBC (tested with DB2 and MS Access), PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Sybase.

The large part of this article is devoted to the portability issues that seemed to plague the previous releases. Added functionality such as "Portability:Right Trim" or "Portability:Error Mapping" helps enhance an already powerful package.