ADOdb

ADOdb is a fast, easy to use, popular database abstraction layer for PHP. It allows the same code to be used when accessing a wide range of databases.

It has been actively maintained since 2000 by the project's founder, John Lim, who decided to retire from the project in 2013. Damien Regad and Mark Newnham took over the project, with the help of numerous community contributors.

ADOdb contains components for querying and updating databases, as well as an Object Orientated Active Record library, schema management and performance monitoring. It also contains the following standalone extensions:

A Date/Time library to handle dates outside of the normal PHP limits.
A Session Management library that extends the normal PHP functionality to allow storing of session management data in a database, or in encrypted values

Note that ADOdb is not a replacement for the native PHP database extensions, but is built on top of them. This means that the corresponding driver(s) must be installed and correctly configured for ADOdb to work.

Current Stable Release Latest Documentation

How To Ask For Help

You can post an issue in the Github issue tracker.

To help with quick resolution:

Try running the code with Debug Mode enabled
Give the version of ADOdb you are using. Please check the top of this page for the earliest release that is supported by the community.
Give the version of PHP you are using, the operating system, the driver and the database version.
Provide a code snippet, and if possible a description of what you are expecting to receive from a function

You can also ask questions on

Stack Overflow using a tag of adodb-php
gitter, community adodb/adodb

Copyright

ADODb is dual-licensed under the BSD and Lesser GPL license, with the BSD License having priority

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ADOdb - Database Abstraction Layer for PHP