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PHP and MySQL
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PHP and MySQL

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Christian Wenz, Tobias Hauser
April 2026
Intermediate
1009 pages
34h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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There are many ways to access files from PHP; it’s not easy to keep track of them all. For certain typical tasks, however, there are also functions that make everything very simple.

Working with files on the local file system still plays an important, but steadily decreasing, role when working with PHP. The reason for this is that hosting packages with a database are becoming increasingly affordable, and PHP also provides a really practical database in the form of SQLite, which does not have to run in the background at a high cost in terms of resources.[ 123 ] The advantages of storing information in a database include the fact that data can be retrieved quickly, that there is a sorting function, and that SQL provides a standard for ...

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