PHP Hacks: Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites

5.1. Hacks 3450: Introduction

At the core of most PHP applications is the database, and in most cases that database is MySQL. This chapter has a variety of hacks to help you develop code for database access and for your work with XML. In particular, you should check out the dynamic database object hack, which provides a single class that will talk to any database. Add to that the code generation hacks, which will help automate your database access code from an XML representation of the database schema, and PHP and databases are going to be a piece of cake!