C R E O L E

Creole is a database abstraction layer for PHP5. It abstracts PHP's native db-specific API to create more portable code while also providing developers with a clean fully object-oriented interface based loosely on the API for Java's JDBC.

There are a number of reasons why Creole exists (when there are already several options for PHP). Please see http://creole.phpdb.org for documentation, propaganda, and links to the competition.

J A R G O N

Jargon is part of the "Creole" project, but is considered a different package. The Jargon classes provide convenience features that Creole - which is designed to be a db abstraction layer for use within other apps and frameworks - lacks.

Jargon provides convenience features such as the PEAR [M]DB getCol(), getOne(), etc. functions; Jargon makes it easy to perform paged queries; and Jargon provides a very basic set of DAO classes.

See the INSTALL document to learn how to install these libraries. For more usage examples, please visit the site at http://creole.phpdb.org .

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