On DevShed.com today, there's a new article that talks about OOP database interfaces and using "Data Access Objects" to create them.

With websites now featuring full-blown dynamic applications that link to databases, data accessing has become a critical process. Often, an object-oriented solution is wanted to manage the data access operations. This works well -- except when certain statements are hard-coded in that can cause headaches when a update is required.

Alejandro Gervasio explains how a new category of tools, known as database interfaces, help to solve this problem.

Using this kind of interface to your database can not only help to make things more standardized, but can also help you in the future should you decide to change databases...