PHP Database Access: Are You Doing It Correctly?

It's possible that, at this point, the only thought in your mind is, "What the heck is PDO?" Well, it's one of PHP's three available APIs for connecting to a MySQL database. "Three," you say? Yes; many folks don't know it, but there are three different APIs for connecting:

• mysql
• mysqli - MySQL Improved
• pdo - PHP Data Objects

The traditional mysql API certainly gets the job done, and has become so popular largely due to the fact that it makes the process of retrieving some records from a database as easy as possible. For example:

Source:http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php-database-access-are-you-doing-it-correctly--net-25338 

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