[Vince]

As far as I'm concerned it's shit. It "dumbs down" the interaction with the MySQL server a lot. Which may or may not be a good thing depening how you look at it. But it has such a high overhead. Lots of string concatenating (slow), non-threaded queries (slow), excessive queries (inefficient), etc. One of these scripts legit uses num_rows to get a simple count. That may seem logical, but it is very inefficient and it proves that the creator himself knows very little about it; the aggregate COUNT() function is much more efficient in that instance.