Databases play an important role in web applications where content is constantly changing and being served according to users’ preferences, location, or other parameters. Databases are also used to collect information from the users in the form of comments to a blog, personal information when accounts are created, etc.
PHP provides support for many different types of databases in the form of a set of functions to connect, perform queries, and get information about tables and columns in the database. Some of the database extensions are procedural and some offer an object-oriented ...
