Database Handling with PHP/MySQL Tutorial

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Unlike other scripting languages for Web page development (i.e. ASP), PHP is open-source, crossplatform, and offers excellent connectivity to most of today’s common databases including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Postgresql, ODBC (and others). PHP also offers integration with various external libraries which enable the developer to do anything from generating PDF docum ents, accessing secure payment services and producing graphic output, to parsing XML.

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Before we leap forward, it’s worth a brief look back to remind ourselves of the goal we’re working toward. We have two powerful, new tools at our disposal: the PHP scripting language, and the MySQL database engine. It’s important to understand how these two will fit together.
The whole idea of a database-driven Web site is to allow the content of the site to reside in a database, and for that content to be dynamically pulled from the database to create Web pages for people to view with a regular Web browser. So on one end of the system you have a visitor to your site who uses a Web browser to load http://www.yoursite.com, and expects to view a standard HTML Web page. On the other end you have the content of your site, part of which sits in one or more tables in a MySQL database that only understands how to respond to SQL queries (commands).
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