Hey all,

Over the last few extensions I've been creating I got annoyed at having to create certain database interaction code over and over again and ended up creating a DataObject class encapsulating most of the work and doing some nice abstraction. The current version, as I have it in the Education Program extension, is documented here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jeroen_De_Dauw/DBObject

An earlier version of this class which is included in the Contest extension has been reviewed and is in use on mediawiki.org.

Since this is a very generic utility and is clearly useful in many extensions (and probably in core as well), I like to put it into core for MW 1.20. If you see issues that need to be resolved before this is done, please describe them.

Cheers

-- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --