A while ago I wrote that I’ve been working on (yet) another implementation of the ZenMagick database API using PDO.

After some back and forth (the code was removed and readded yesterday) I’ve started working on that again. There are a couple good reasons for that.

Firstly, since Creole is not supported any more, having another implementation seems like a good idea. Secondly, it appears that it is quite a bit faster than Creole (and perhaps even Zen Cart’s $db).

I haven’t had a chance to verify this usingpages with lots of database access, since there are still bits missing in the implementation. The good news is, though, that the tests for ZMDatabase have been improved and extended in the process of filling the gaps.

In related news, I’ve decided (more or less) to make another change to the database API. This will only happen after 0.9.5 is released, though. The methods to control transactions are a bit clumsy and I hope that things will be a bit more intuitive in the future.