Learning PHP Data Objects

Publisher: Packt Publishing | ISBN: 1847192661 | edition 2007 | PDF | 185 pages | 2.7 mb
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
In Detail

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.
What you will learn from this book?

This book covers:
An overview of the technology
Getting started with PDO
Error handling, prepared statements, and handling rowsets
Advanced features, like getting column metadata and setting connection parameters with examples
Approach
This book describes the topic first and then gives step-by-step instructions on how to go about a particular example.
Who this book is written for?

PHP developers who need to use PDO for data abstraction.
BOOK DETAILS:
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (August 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1847192661
ISBN-13: 978-1847192660