http://libdbi.sourceforge.net'> ]> libdbi Driver Author's Guide (OUTDATED SEE README!) David A. Parker Neon Goat Productions

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Document revision: $Id: driver-guide.tmpl,v 1.6 2002/10/26 23:19:46 dap Exp $ $Date: 2002/10/26 23:19:46 $ 2001-2002 David Parker, Neon Goat Productions Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in . libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework. This guide explains the internal DBD interface for libdbi drivers, and provides a reference for all available driver helper functions.

libdbi provides application developers with a database independent abstraction layer for C. It handles the database-specific implementations for each type of database, so that you can use the same exact code with any type of database server that libdbi supports. You can initiate and use multiple database connections simultaneously, regardless of the types of database servers you are connecting to. The plugin architecture allows for new database drivers to be easily added dynamically by a third party.

In this guide, the terms author and programmer are used interchangably, since the target audience is the software developer writing a driver for libdbi.

libdbi is Copyright © 2001-2002, David Parker and Mark Tobenkin. libdbi is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

Please email us with any bugs, ideas, feature requests, or questions. The libdbi website has the latest version of this documentation and the libdbi software, as well as a central database of third-party drivers. &www; David Parker david@neongoat.com Mark Tobenkin mark@brentwoodradio.com

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