October 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
23h 16m
English
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8 Designing Your Web Database
NOW THAT YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE BASICS of PHP, you can begin looking at integrating a database into your scripts. As you might recall, Chapter 2, “Storing and Retrieving Data,” described the advantages of using a relational database instead of a flat file. They include
RDBMSs can provide faster access to data than flat files.
RDBMSs can be easily queried to extract sets of data that fit certain criteria.
RDBMSs ...