A quickstart guide to working with databases for beginners, covering basic concepts, simple SQL, and working with databases in PHP either natively or with PEAR DB.
By : Ligaya Turmelle
So you have played around a little bit with PHP maybe created a hit counter or a guestbook using files. But you want to try something a little bigger. Maybe even something using a database. Only one problem, you know nothing about databases. Nothing, nada, zero, zilch.
Well you are in the right place. Hopefully by the end of this introduction to databases you will understand the basic terminology and concepts of databases, the basics of the language the database use as well as two common options PHP provides for interacting with the database (using native database support or using PEAR's DB package). So hold on tight for a crash course in databases.
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