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Database Programming ” 169<br />

Summary<br />

As you can see, this chapter deals with a minimal set of the database functionality<br />

that you would normally use for day-to-day programming. In addition, it provides<br />

you with a small set of advanced features that many database engines now provide,<br />

including transactions, prepared statements, and bound parameters. These features<br />

have become essential to Web application programming, which is why PDO provides<br />

unified access to this functionality regardless of the database engine used. In addition<br />

to PDO, <strong>PHP</strong>’s long history with MySQL makes some knowledge of the mysqli<br />

extension important to <strong>PHP</strong> programmers.<br />

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