On his blog today, Wez Furlong makes a few comments on the intro to PDO that was posted yesterday over on SitePoint.

Well, it's nice to have publicity, but the SitePoint intro by David has a few factoids (and user comments) that are slightly "off", so here are some comments of my own to bolster his post:

• PDO is Beta now, not alpha
• Use pdo_drivers() if you want to see what drivers are available.
• David missed out on my article on PDO for IBM developerWorks, which is a bit more up to date than the OTN article.
• PDO is all C-based native code, and will, one day in the future, eventually replace the traditional database extensions.
• PDO is data access abstraction rather than database abstraction. They are not the same thing

The PHP Data Objects project is really coming along nicely, and I'm starting to believe more and more Wez's claim that PDO will someday replace that traditional abstraction built into PHP right now...