<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:09 AM, marc wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">So essentially I'm asking cookbook authors if we can all agree on one <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">database abstraction layer for PmWiki -- for use when we're going to <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">deal with external databases.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It would be quite helpful if we all <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">agreed, and greatly extend the cookbook's support for a variety of <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">data sources.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">You have my vote.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Oh,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm also willing to help cookbook contributors figure out either ADOdb or how to utilize object-oriented class calls and "methods" (i.e. functions).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I plan to start giving "Practical Web Programming" classes local to me. Eventually I may open up an online course for the same. In case anyone is interested "local to me" is Orange County New York, where I'm a member of several professional associations and would love to hear about any PmWiki fans (or soon-to-be fans ;) ) in my area.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Feel free to ask if you don't "get" classes and how to use them. I went from programming Basic/Pascal/Fortran/DBase3+ etc. to PHP -- and it still took years for me to "get" objects. Now I get them. :) I'd love to help others.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>