PHP Application Development With ADODB (part 1) - Coming Soon, To A Screen Near You (
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And that's about it
for this introductory tutorial. Over the preceding pages, I demonstrated the
basics of the ADODB database abstraction library, explaining how it could be
used to insulate your code from the impact of a database change and thereby add
portability to your PHP application. I showed you the different methods the
ADODB library provides to iterate over a resultset, and to convert a resultset
into native PHP arrays suitable for further processing. Finally, I demonstrated
a number of useful utility functions, most notably functions related to counting
rows and columns, retrieving database, table and field information, and escaping
special characters prior to inserting them into a database.
All this, of
course, constitutes just the tip of the ADODB iceberg - there's a lot more to
this library than meets the eye. Tune in next week for the advanced course, when
I'll be exploring things like transactions, cached queries, data typing and
dynamic menus. Until then...be good!
Note: All examples in this article
have been tested on Linux/i586 with PHP 4.2.0, Apache 1.3.12 and ADODB 2.2.0.
Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment.
Melonfire provides no warranties or support for the source code described in
this article. YMMV!
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