Chapter 19. Database connection, abstraction, and configuration
| 19.1 | Database abstraction | 433 |
| 19.2 | Decorating and adapting database resource objects | 438 |
| 19.3 | Making the database connection available | 442 |
| 19.4 | Summary | 448 |
Databases are a major component of any programmer’s diet. PHP programmers eat databases for breakfast, not to mention lunch, dinner, and late-night snacks. With MySQL in particular (and more recently SimpleSQL), databases have been fast food for many years: easy to install, deploy, and use.
But as any health fanatic will tell you, frivolous eating is dangerous. The first risk we run when consuming food is indigestion. The digestive process is supposed to work painlessly, but sometimes it doesn’t. In programming, we call these ...
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