This PostgreSQL PHP section shows you how to interact with the PostgreSQL database using PHP Data Objects (PDO) API. It teaches you the steps of performing the common database operations in PHP such as creating new tables, inserting data, updating data, querying data, deleting data, using transaction, calling stored procedures, and working with binary large objects.
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The PHP Data Objects (PDO) defines a unified interface for accessing the relational databases in PHP. Each database defines the database-specific driver that implements the PDO interface. In addition, each driver can expose the database-specific features as regular extension functions.
Most PHP distributions have the PDO_PGSQL driver that allows you to interact with PostgreSQL databases via PDO API.
- Connecting to a PostgreSQL database – shows you how to setup a simple PHP application structure and connect to a PostgreSQL database.
- Creating new PostgreSQL database tables – walks you through the steps of creating database tables in PostgreSQL using PHP.
- Inserting data into PostgresQL tables – guides you how to use insert data into a table using PHP PDO.
- Updating data in the table – provides you with the steps of updating data in the database tables.
- Querying data from a table – shows you various ways to query data in the PostgreSQL database from PHP.
- Performing transactions – explains the transaction concept and shows you how to perform transactions in PHP.
- Working with the binary large objects (BLOB) – shows you how to insert, select, and delete the large objects in the PostgreSQL using PHP.
- Calling PostgreSQL stored procedures – explains you the steps of calling PostgreSQL stored procedures from PHP.
- Deleting data in a PostgreSQL table using PHP PDO – teaches you how to delete data from the PostgreSQL table in the PHP application using PDO.