Is PHP/PEAR MDB2 dead? Which PHP abstraction layer should I use?

[cmayo]

I'm retired now and the only system I still work on uses MDB2 for PHP database abstraction. That client has recommended me to someone else for some dev work and while I'm still happy with MDB2, I'd prefer not to write a new system using a dead abstraction layer.

So is MDB2 still kicking and/or is there a better, more modern abstraction layer? Or is abstraction obsolete now and should I just start using PDO?

 

[spamjim]

Seeing that the dependency for this is PHP 5.2 and this package has not been touched by its developers since 2012, I'd move on from MDB2.