PDO - PHP Database Extension
Explore how to use the PDO extension in PHP to securely connect to databases and perform basic operations like insertion, selection, update, and deletion. Learn to handle errors with try-catch blocks and manage connections efficiently for dynamic database interactions.
PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a PHP extension through which we can access and work with databases. Though PDO is similar in many aspects to MySQLi, it is better to work with because of the following reasons:
- It is consistent across databases, so it can work with MySQL as well as other types of databases (SQLite, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and others).