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Quick Poll: Do you abstract your DB functions?

Sunday 28 Oct, 2007 10:23 PM

This one has always had me wondering how everyone else did it, so I figured what better way to find out than to put up a quick poll.

So it's fairly straightforward: in your code, do you have a database wrapper class with abstracted functions like query(), or do you call mysql_query() (or equivalent) directly from your code?

Leave a comment below if you're outraged that I even had to ask.

Tags: database

Comments

Josh said on 31 Oct 2007:
Wow, very close so far. I guess it really depends on the scale of your app...
Tristan said on 03 Nov 2007:
I write massive apps and my wrappers are thick and throbbing. But seriously who can go past a good set of wrapper functions
David Novakovic said on 07 Nov 2007:
I use an ORM, SQLAlchemy, it's great :)