As a first step of migrating to a more sophisticated database access system I have started with adding a simple layer (read: interface) that eventually will replace all $db usage. The interface will provide some simple methods to read/write the database using a lot of the ZenMagick binding code.

That should make it easy to replace the current $db based implementation with something different. The nice thing right now is that I can migrate services and other database access classes one by one without breaking anything.

Once all code is converted to using the new interface I’ll start investigating alternative implementations. I really like Creole, as it looks (intentinally) a lot like Java and the interface design is done with that in mind, so it will be easy enough to create an implementation using Creole…