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Unit 14: Connecting to MySQL with PHP

Notes

• Exception handling using a try..catch structure

• Integrated SOAP support (see the image at right)

• The Filter library (in PHP 5.1)
• Better XML tools

• Iterators
and much, much more.

PHP 6 has been in development since October of 2006. The most significant change will be
native support for Unicode. Unpopular, deprecated features such as Magic Quotes, register_
globals, safe_ mode, and the HTTP_ *_ VARS variables will disappear in PHP 6. Although
PHP is still primarily used for server-side generation of Web pages, it can also be used to
perform command-line scripting or to create graphical applications with the help of GTK+.

Questions
1. Give all version name of PHP.

2. Give the year of funding PHP 6.

14.3 Summary

• The client application needs to connect to database server, before manipulating the data.

• The load data statement acts as a bulk loader that reads data from a file.

• The mysql dump command is used for taking a backup of an existing database.

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