PHP 5 gives us everything we would expect in this area. In previous versions of PHP there was no support for data protection, meaning that all elements of a class were publicly accessible. This lack ...

PHP Data Objects Templates WebSmart's new PHP Data Objects templates provide a database abstraction layer that makes it easier to access MySQL and IBM i DB2 or to switch from one database to another.

Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...