Here are some bits of Google code for handling MySQL access in PHP (PHP's native syntax to do so is a bit wordy, which is why a wrapper might make sense):

code.google.com/p/google-gears ...
code.google.com/p/google-gears ...

this is kinda LAME. check out this one at stefangabos.blogspot.com/2006/ ... Small footprint. VERY cool :)