[wp-hackers] wpdb Outside of WordPress

[Scott Taylor]

wpdb is based on: https://github.com/jv2222/ezSQL

Those who work on WP core want to make wpdb work well for WordPress, not make a one-size-fits-all solution for all PHP environments. But there's nothing stopping anyone else (you) from doing that, and others would probably appreciate it 

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On Friday, November 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM, CloudPress Hosting wrote:

> I normally just use mysqli but for consistency since I am used to wpdb when
> working with WordPress figured I could use it outside of WordPress as well.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:54 PM, scribu <mail at scribu.net (mailto:mail at scribu.net)> wrote:
> 
> > Note that there's an object-oriented MySQL abstraction built right into
> > PHP, called PDO.
> > 
> > Here's just one of many articles that describes the advantages of PDO:
> > http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/pdo-vs-mysqli-which-should-you-use/
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> Seems like overkill to load up a whole instance of WordPress just to access
> a database. Shouldn't take much modification to the wpdb class to remove
> the WordPress specific stuff and you can use it directly. It should be
> possible to use it as is I believe I would just clean it up a little by
> removing the WordPress specific stuff.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM, David F. Carr <david at carrcommunications.com (mailto:david at carrcommunications.com)
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> > I've often created standalone PHP scripts, for example to be used with cron
> > job, that simply include "/pathto/wp-config.php" and then make use of the
> > $wpdb object.
> > 
> > Standard disclaimers apply about security concerns / protecting your
> > database.
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:54 PM, scribu <mail at scribu.net (mailto:mail at scribu.net)> wrote:
> > 
> > > Note that there's an object-oriented MySQL abstraction built right into
> > > PHP, called PDO.
> > > 
> > > Here's just one of many articles that describes the advantages of PDO:
> > http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/pdo-vs-mysqli-which-should-you-use/
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