Description:

Creole is a database abstraction layer for PHP5. It abstracts PHP's
native db-specific API to create more portable code while also
providing developers with a clean fully object-oriented interface
based loosely on the API for Java's JDBC.

There are a number of database abstraction packages for PHP. Creole
draws from experience with several of these -- noteably PEAR::DB,
PEAR::MDB, and ADOdb. Creole was created as a subproject of Propel to
meet specific needs that none of the available abstraction layers were
able to address in any satisfactory way.