mySQL PHP PEAR::DB

So, I just fixed a behavior in PEAR::DB. In isManip, a regular expression is called on every query that goes through the PEAR::DB layer. That sucks btw, but the purpose of function is to tell the classes that inherit from DB that the query passed is a query that affects data.

The code is as follows

 function isManip($query)
    {
        $manips = 'INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE|REPLACE|'
                . 'CREATE|DROP|'
                . 'LOAD DATA|SELECT .* INTO .* FROM|COPY|'
                . 'ALTER|GRANT|REVOKE|'
                . 'LOCK|UNLOCK';
        if (preg_match('/^\s*"?(' . $manips . ')\s+/i', $query)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

Then in mysql.php there is this

function affectedRows()
    {
        if ($this->_last_query_manip) {
            return @mysql_affected_rows($this->connection);
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
     }

Which is not ideal IMHO. I changed mysql.php to just return the results of mysql_affected_rows which is better anyway IMHO.

What DB wrapper do you use? What do you think about PDO?

Personally I like to write my own, bare bone wrappers around mysql_* functions for php but to make things compatible I'm using PEAR::DB.