| PEAR Announce 2006-04-13, 7:00 pm |
| The new PEAR package DB_Table-1.3.0RC4 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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Changes since 1.3.0RC3:
* Fixed handling of QuickForm rules: If there was a server-side-only
rule (like 'uploadedfile'), client-side validation was disabled
for all rules. Now it is disabled only for server-side-only rules.
* You can now use an extended HTML_QuickForm object by specifying
the class name in $_DB_TABLE['qf_class_name']. (Attention: You
have to include the extended class file yourself.)
Changes since 1.3.0RC2:
* Fixed copy & paste errors introduced by fixing bug #7287.
Changes since 1.3.0RC1:
* Bug #7287: create() was called when using the new creation modes
'verify' or 'alter'. This can be seen as a BC break (especially
when somebody extends DB_Table), and therefore, there are new
methods verify() and alter() in DB_Table class.
(thanks to vdb at mail dot ru)
Short summary:
* New table creation modes 'verify' and 'alter'
* Primary keys are now supported
* MDB2 is now supported as database backend
* Firebird DBMS is now supported (but Interbase isn't)
* Auto-creation of QuickForm rules can be disabled now
* Usage of custom QuickForm elements is now more flexible
* Internationalizing/customizing of error messages now easier
Minor changes in detail:
* Improvement related to bug report #5679: many arrays (in the
table definition and as function parameters) may now be null
(of course, an empty array is still allowed).
* The column definition array $col may not be empty because it
isn't possible to create empty database tables and because
the work with DB_Table makes only sense with at least one
column.
* Fixed several return by reference problems (that caused
notices in PHP 4.4.x and 5.x).
* Fixed several "undefined index" problems (causing notices).
* Bugfix: select() and selectResult() didn't return error
objects caused due to problems in $sql array.
* Bugfix: static usage of DB_Table_QuickForm::createForm()
resulted in fatal error when 'formName' wasn't specified
in the $args parameter.
* Request #5965: Turn off automatic setting of default QF rules
like 'numeric' or 'required' (can be done by setting
$cols[...]['qf_set_default_rules'] = false).
(thanks to Arne Bippes)
* Bug #6025: DB_Table no longer tries to create a table if a
table with the same name but with different use of lower and
upper letters.
* Request #6036: new qf_type 'callback' which allows to add
custom QF elements that need more than the standard
parameters. You need to specify a key named 'qf_callback',
filled with either the name of a class (this class needs to
have a method 'createElement') or the name of a method.
Both method types must return true if the element was created
successfully. (thanks to Arne Bippes)
* The dependency on the Date package was removed.
* In addition to the option to internationalize some error messages
via $GLOBALS['_DB_TABLE']['error'], you can now use
setErrorMessage() like this (assuming $obj is your DB_Table instance):
$obj->setErrorMessage(DB_TABLE_ERR_PHPTYPE, 'localized message');
or to set more than one message:
$obj-> setErrorMessage(array(DB_TABLE_ERR_PHPTY
PE => 'message 1',
DB_TABLE_ERR_NOT_DB_OBJECT => 'message 2'));
Static calls (DB_Table::setErrorMessage(...)) are also valid.
Setting the error messages via a static call or $GLOBALS is
especially needed for errors that can occur with-in the
constructor call (i.e. e.g. creating or altering the database table).
Major changes / enhancements in detail:
* Request #5478: Verification/check, whether the table exists,
whether all the columns exist, whether the columns have the
right type, and whether the indexes exists. This can be used
by setting $create in the constructor of your extended class
to 'verify' instead of false/'safe'/'drop'. In case of an
error in the schema, you will find the PEAR_Error object in
$obj->error (assuming $obj is your DB_Table instance).
- This is not available for 'fbsql' and 'mssql' phptypes.
('fbsql' is likely to be not supported in the future, while
'mssql' will be added when MDB2 has support for index and
constraint information for this DBMS.)
* New creation mode 'alter': If the table does not exist, it will
be created. Otherwise, table fields' existance and types will be
checked and, if needed, the field(s) will be added or changed. The
same applies for indexes' and constraints' existance and types.
Columns/indexes/constraints that don't exist anymore in the table
definition class, will NOT be removed.
- This is a new and powerful feature, use it with caution -- changing
a string datatype into a numeric datatype in your table definition
class may lead to data loss.
- Using " $_DB_TABLE['debug'] = true; " in your scripts will
output what will be changed. If something unexpected is changed,
please report it via PEAR's bug tracker (please include the
debug message and the column and/or index definition from your
table definition class, thanks).
- This is not available for 'fbsql' and 'mssql' phptypes.
('fbsql' is likely to be not supported in the future, while
'mssql' will be added when MDB2 has support for index and
constraint information for this DBMS.)
(thanks to Arne Bippes for the initial idea)
* Support for primary keys: In the $idx array one index can be
marked as 'primary' and will be created as the primary key of
the chosen table.
- This not available for 'sqlite' phptype, as SQLite does not
support primary keys.
* Request #6384: DB_Table now supports also MDB2 as the database
backend. Just pass an MDB2 instance instead of a DB instance to
the constructor. (thanks to Lukas Smith for the initial patch)
* DB_Table now supports the Firebird DBMS (version >= 1.5
required). Because of the limited features of Interbase
(its ancestor), only Firebird is supported. Therefore,
'dbsyntax' must be set to 'firebird' in your DSN. Please note
that the ibase extension is very buggy in PHP 4, while it works
good with PHP 5.
Only relevant if you are using localized error messages:
* Please note that there are eleven new error messages and that the
messages for DB_TABLE_ERR_NOT_DB_OBJECT and DB_TABLE_ERR_PHPTYPE
slightly differ from the old messages.
Package Info
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Builds on PEAR DB to abstract datatypes and automate table creation, data validation, insert, update, delete, and select; combines these with PEAR HTML_QuickForm to automatically generate input forms that match the table column definitions.
Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/DB_Table
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/DB_Table/download/1.3.0RC4
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/DB_Table-1.3.0RC4.tgz
Authors
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Paul Jones <pmjones@ciaweb.net> (lead)
Mark Wiesemann <wiesemann@php.net> (lead)
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