August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1104 pages
19h 27m
English
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Chapter 23. Database Integration
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PHP has strong support for many databases. If native support for your favorite database doesn't exist, there's always ODBC, which is a standard for external database drivers. Support for new databases seems to show up regularly. The universal remark in this regard from the PHP developers has been “give us a machine to test on, and we'll add support.”
MySQL is undoubtedly the most popular database used by PHP coders. Apart from being free, it suits Web development because of its blazing speed. In the examples for this chapter I'll assume you have a MySQL ...