This book will introduce you to one of the most important extensions to PHP that are available, starting with PHP version —the PHP Data Objects, commonly known as PDO. PHP grew in to a very popular web programming language due to its simplicity and ease of use. One of the key factors of this growing success is the built-in possibility to access many popular relational database management systems (RDBMS), such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, to name just a few. Today, most of the existing and newly created web applications interconnect with these databases to produce dynamic, data-driven websites. While most PHP-enabled.