OO approach described in this article helps to create data layer abstractions which are easy to port to other databases without altering the application code

Not sure how to make use of the free MySQL database space included with your web-hosting plan? This step-by-step tutorial explains a simple way to upload data from a Microsoft Access database to the MySQL database at your ISP. The tutorial also contains a free sample application that is available in ASP and PHP versions.

Got a MySQL database with content within it? Want to be able to search it and display paged search results on screen? This tutorial and script will do just that. (Apache, PHP, MySQL database required)

Learn how to use MySQL embedded function to format Date/Time field value just right in the SQL query string. For example another way is to use PHP, but it is slower and inconvenient. This tutorial will show you both examples for the same goal.

The author writes: Whilst working on the automatic production of web statistics - came across the following problem: "How do I get relational data from an Hierarchical structure?" It didn't take long to realize - I'd have to use PHP to talk to LDAP, pull off records & upload into a series of tables, using the cn as primary key. Which then could be queried relationally. Pulling off large, queries and repeatedly transcending LDAP trees is pretty slow - so I built my LDAP to SQL engine, by flattening dns into table names. Then used PHP scripts to query & produce daily snap shots.

This tutorial will show you how to display data from a database and allow the user to sort it.

Want to reduce the load that MySQL has on your web server? Generating Static HTML pages to replace queries is the solution. Read this tutorial to learn how.

So you've written a great application with PHP and it is up and running smooth. Then, your boss calls and tells you that your company won't be using MySQL anymore. You're moving to Oracle. Your application is dead in the water. You should have used database abstraction.

Putting your data into multiple columns with PHP is a snap. This tutorial will show you how it is done.

If you are writing an application that is used in multiple environments and operating systems, you need to plan to support multiple databases. This article is based on my experiences with multiple database systems, stretching from 4th Dimension in my Mac days, to the databases I currently use, which are: Oracle, FoxPro, Access, MS SQL Server and MySQL. Although most of the advice here applies to Perl, Python and other programming languages, we will focus on PHP and how the ADOdb database abstraction library offers some solutions.