This book starts with an overview of PHP Data Objects (PDO), followed by getting started with PDO. Then it covers error handling, prepared statements, and handling rowsets, before covering advanced uses of PDO and an example of its use in an MVC application. Finally an appendix covers the new object-oriented features of PHP 5. This book will guide you through the data layer abstraction objects in PHP. What you will learn from this book?
-An overview of the technology,
-Getting started with PDO, -Error handling, prepared statements, and handling rowsets,
-Advanced features, like getting column metadata and setting connection parameters with examples.
More details are available at:
http://www.packtpub.com/L earning-PHP-Data-Objects- Open-Source/book
