Over on Sean Coates' weblog today, he has a new posting with some of his first impressions of PDO.

Let me say, first, that I think PDO has a LOT of potential. Even the work that has already been completed is wonderful, and it will push PHP forward into even heavier usage. I used to write CFML (please don't hold it against me), and one of the key benefits of Coldfusion was uniform database connectivity.

Additionally, I've never been able to do cool things like use prepared queries in MySQL before, and while it's not technically possible to actually do this in (at least in the version I run -- see below), PDO's emulation layer is an incredible idea that I'm going to have a hard time living without at work (where we're still on PHP 4.. at least for the next couple months).

In short: PDO is great. It will become an indispensible part of the PHP core distribution. Kudos to all involved.

All in all, PDO is going to be great. Hopefully in time for PHP 5.1 (tentatively March 1st). I'd even suggest postponing 5.1 if PDO still has major bugs.

It's good to hear that this extension is shaping up well - it definitely has the potential to be a very welcome addition to the base PHP installation on many a machine...