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Learning PHP Data Objects

By : Dennis Popel
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Learning PHP Data Objects

By: Dennis Popel

Overview of this book

PDO is lighter, faster, and more powerful than existing PHP data abstraction interfaces. PDO is a common interface to different databases that must be used with a database-specific PDO driver to access a particular database server: the PDO extension does not provide a database abstraction by itself; it doesn't rewrite SQL, emulate missing database features, or perform any database functions using by itself. It performs the same role as other classic database abstraction layers such as ODBC and JDBC: it's a query abstraction layer that abstracts the mechanism for accessing a database and manipulating the returned records; each database driver that implements the PDO interface can also expose database-specific features as regular extension functions. ¬ PDO ships with PHP 5.1, and is available as an extension for PHP 5.0; it requires the new object-oriented features of PHP 5, and cannot run with earlier versions of PHP.This book will teach you how to use the PDO, including its advanced features. Readers need to be aware of the basics of data abstraction and should be familiar with PHP.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Dinangkur Kundu completed his bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Central Queensland University, Australia. He has been working as a software engineer and network admin—designing, developing, and configuring. He has worked with a variety of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation languages. He has worked with flat files, indexed files, hierarchical databases, network databases, and relational databases, several Sun and HP servers to configure small and medium range office networks providing Internet service, Mail service, file share service, network-based printing service, backup service, and implementing several network-based applications. Currently, he works as Chief Technical Officer at Quantumcloud, developing and customizing LAMP- and WAMP-based web services. He enjoys producing high-quality software, web-based solutions, and designing secure network.

Tahmid Munaz is currently working in Relisource Technologies (www.relisource.com) as an SQA Engineer. He is also a volunteer in an association called SQABD (SQA Bangladesh—www.sqabd.com) as a Community Relations Manager. He has experience in conducting QA and Testing training and mentoring freshers for Testing and QA Career paths and Consulting.

He loves to keep in touch with other Technical Communities like—JPGroup, Dot_net_community, PHPExpert, and PHPResource. He is addicted to reading blogs and writing when he gets time. You can visit Tahmid's blog at http://tahmidmunaz.blogspot.com