October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
7h 12m
English
This section presents some basics in three of the more prominent databases that you can use with PHP. This book assumes that you have some experience with databases and PHP (notably MySQL). This information is included as a brief overview and to point out some of the differences between the functions across different databases. The databases are:
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MS SQL (Microsoft)
Chances are good that you will have at least one of these databases available to you (very good since MySQL and PostgreSQL are available for free download).
There are four basic concepts in PHP for dealing with databases:
Connecting to the database server.
Selecting the proper database.
Querying the database to insert, read, or delete ...
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