一次编写，随处运行

MDB combines most of the features of PEAR DB and Metabase. Actually, the only feature that is missing is PEAR DB's feature of returning an object as a result set. This feature was dropped because the feature's usage never became abundant but the performance penalty was quite apparent. A lot of development time was spend on making the API as intuitive as possible as well. Finally, MDB provides this functionality at a very high level of performance that is at least as fast as PEAR DB and much faster than Metabase. Here is the list of the most important features:
MDB 结合了 PEAR DB 和 Metabase 的大部分特性。实际上，PEAR DB 的特性中唯一不再存在的是作为结果集返回一个对象。我们放弃了这个特性是因为这个特性不常用而且对于性能的损失是非常明显的。许多开发上的时间用在了使得 API 尽可能的好用。最终，MDB 非常高地提供了这些功能至少和 PEAR DB 一样快而且比 Metabase 快很多。这些最重要地特性的列表：

OO-style API
prepared queries emulation
full data type abstraction for all data passed to and from the database (including LOB support)
transaction support
database/table/index/sequence creation/dropping/altering
RDBMS independent database schema management
Integrated into the PEAR framework (PEAR Installer, PEAR error handling etc.)

OO 风格的 API
预准备的查询模拟
给所有传递进来以及从数据库中取出的数据的完全的数据类型抽象（包括 LOB 支持）
事务支持
数据库/表/索引/序列创建/抛弃/改变
RDBMS 无关的数据库 schema 管理
继承进 PEAR 框架（PEAR 安装程序，PEAR 错误处理等）

So how does it work?
那么它如何使用呢？

MDB provides some very advanced abstraction features. It is important to keep in mind that these features are optional. But using them is critical in writing RDBMS independent PHP applications. An example of how the basics of MDB work can be found under Links & Literature at the end of the article. As stated earlier, the focus of the article is to introduce the features that set MDB apart from other database abstraction layers for PHP. You can find example scripts for all code examples found in this article on the CD that is packaged with this issue.
MDB 提供了一些非常先进的抽象特性。记住这些特性只是供选择的是很重要的。但是在编写 RDBMS 无关的 PHP 程序时使用它们是非常重要的。一个展示使用 MDB 是多么简单的例子在文章的结尾的 "链接和文献" 部分。如前面所说，文章的焦点是介绍使得 MDB 与其他 PHP 数据库抽象层不同的那些特性。你可以在随本期文章一同包装的 CD 中找到所有这些例子脚本的代码。

But first we will need to get MDB installed. This is actually quite easy using the PEAR installer. I cannot cover the entire PEAR Installer within this article but I hear the next issue will talk about great details about all the ins and outs of the PEAR framework. There is work going on to make the Installer work on Windows but the support is still a bit flaky. For *nix systems you will need a CGI version of PHP installed on your system and simply run the following command:
但是，首先我们需要把 MDB 安装上去。使用 PEAR 安装程序这其实非常容易。我不能在这篇文章中完整的讲述 PEAR 安装程序但是我听说下一期将非常详细的讨论 PEAR 框架的里里外外。让安装程序运行于 Windows 的工作在进行当作但是支持仍然有一点古怪。对于 *nix 系统你需要 PHP 的 CGI 版本安装在了你的系统并且简单地运行下面地命令：

lynx -source go-pear.org|php

After completing the installation process you simply need to type one more command and you are all set.
在安装完成之后你只需要再输入一行命令那么就全部搞定了。

pear install MDB

If the above does not work for you there is always the option of getting the package directly from the PEAR MDB homepage. The URL is listed at the bottom of the article.
如果前面的过程对你来说不管用，总是有从 PEAR MDB 主页中直接获得包的选项。URL 列于文章的最后。

Making use of data type abstraction
利用数据类型抽象

Since most databases tend to have some specialities or quirks it is important for MDB to hide these differences from the developer. MDB achieves this by defining its own internal data types: text, boolean, integer, decimal, float, date, time, time stamp, large objects (files). All data that is passed to and from the database may be converted from MDB's internal format to the databases internal format. The accompanying example scripts to this section can be found in the datatype directory. Let us look at the following query:
因为大部分数据库倾向于有一些个性或者怪癖，对于MDB来说把这些不同之处给开发者隐藏起来非常重要。MDB 通过定义自己的内部数据类型来达到这点：text，boolean，integer，decimal，float，date，time，time stamp，large objects（文件）。所有传递给数据库和从数据库获取的数据都能转换成 MDB 的内部格式或者从数据库的内部格式转化回来。本节相关的例子脚本能够再 datatype 目录中找到。让我们看看下面的查询：

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