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Learning PHP Data Objects. A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5

Learning PHP Data Objects. A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5

Dennis Popel

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PDO is lighter, faster, and more powerful than existing PHP data abstraction interfaces. PDO is a common interface to different databases that must be used with a database-specific PDO driver to access a particular database server: the PDO extension does not provide a database abstraction by itself; it doesn't rewrite SQL, emulate missing database features, or perform any database functions using by itself. It performs the same role as other classic database abstraction layers such as ODBC and JDBC: it's a query abstraction layer that abstracts the mechanism for accessing a database and manipulating the returned records; each database driver that implements the PDO interface can also expose database-specific features as regular extension functions. ¬ PDO ships with PHP 5.1, and is available as an extension for PHP 5.0; it requires the new object-oriented features of PHP 5, and cannot run with earlier versions of PHP.This book will teach you how to use the PDO, including its advanced features. Readers need to be aware of the basics of data abstraction and should be familiar with PHP.
  • Learning PHP Data Objects
    • Table of Contents
    • Learning PHP Data Objects
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
    • Preface
      • What This Book Covers
      • Who This Book is For
      • Conventions
      • Reader Feedback
      • Customer Support
        • Downloading the Example Code for the Book
        • Errata
        • Questions
    • 1. Introduction
      • Using PDO
        • Connecting to the Database
        • Connection Strings
        • Issuing SQL Queries, Quoting Parameters, and Handling Result Sets
        • Error Handling
        • Prepared Statements
        • Appropriate Understanding of PDO
      • Summary
    • 2. Using PHP Data Objects: First Steps
      • Connection Strings
        • Creating the Sample Database
          • The Data Model
          • Creating the MySQL Database
      • Designing Our Code
      • PDO Statements and Result Sets
      • Retrieving Result Set Metadata
      • Summary
    • 3. Error Handling
      • Sources of Errors
        • Server Software Failure or Overload
        • Improper Configuration of the Application
        • Improper Validation of User Input
        • Inserting a Record with a Duplicate Primary Key or Unique Index Value
        • Syntax Errors in SQL Statements
      • Types of Error Handling in PDO
      • Defining an Error Handling Function
      • Creating the Edit Book Page
      • Creating the Edit Author Page
      • Securing against Uncaught Exceptions
      • Summary
    • 4. Prepared Statements
      • Prepared Statements
        • Positional and Named Placeholders
        • Prepared Statements and Bound Values
      • Working with BLOBs
      • Summary
    • 5. Handling Rowsets
      • Retrieving the Number of Rows in a Result Set
      • Limiting the Number of Rows Returned
        • Using Database-Specific SQL
        • Processing the Top N Rows Only
        • Starting at an Arbitrary Offset
      • Summary
    • 6. Advanced PDO Usage
      • Setting and Getting Connection Attributes
      • MySQL Buffered Queries
      • Connecting Using the Connection Configuration File and php.ini Setting
      • Getting the List of Available Drivers
      • Transactions
      • Summary
    • 7. An Advanced Example
      • Designing the Model
      • Modifying the Frontend to Use the Model
      • Advantages of Separating the Model
      • Further Thoughts
      • Finishing Up
    • A. Introduction to OOP in PHP5
      • What is Object-Oriented Programming?
        • The Syntax for Declaring Objects
        • Constructors
        • Destructors
      • The Advantages of OOP
        • Inheritance
        • Encapsulation
        • Polymorphism
      • Static Properties, Methods, and Class Constants
      • Exceptions
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Learning PHP Data Objects. A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5
  • Author: Dennis Popel
  • Original title: Learning PHP Data Objects. A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5
  • ISBN: 9781847192677, 9781847192677
  • Date of issue: 2007-08-30
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3cll
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing