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l33tpraetorian
l33tpraetorian

Reputation: 9

PDO: Dynamically detect database drivers

I'm creating my own CMS, part of this is making sure it is interoperable with different database types. PDO is therefore my default choice, my question is:

Is there any way to dynamically detect and set the database type in a PDO connection class?

As far as i can see there isn't so i was thinking just doing a bunch of try/catch on different database types then writing the one that doesn't throw an exception to a config file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

Your Common Sense
Your Common Sense

Reputation: 157880

Although PHP has extension_loaded() function, as it was noted in the comments, multiple databases support is not that easy.

Your question is a typical example of premature engineering. You don't have your CMS yet, you don't have support for even one database, but your only concern is how to detect it.

Upvotes: 5

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