Dear Reader, The PHP language and the PostgreSQL database have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. This book …

Example #1 Using pg_execute() <?php // Connect to a database named "mary“ $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=mary"); // Prepare a query for execution $result = pg_prepare($dbconn, …

PHP allows us to create web-based user interfaces that interact with PostgreSQL. Here, we will focus on designing PHP scripts that make effective use of PHP’s PostgreSQL interface.

When you write your SQL and PHP code you will have to map our interface into your database design. If you have fancy features that our API does not cover, either leave them out or you …

PostgreSQL is perceived as more powerful, more focused on data integrity, and stricter at complying with SQL specifications, but correspondingly slower and more complicated to use.

Following are important PHP routines which can suffice your requirement to work with PostgreSQL database from your PHP program. If you are looking for a more sophisticated …

After you have worked through this tutorial you might want to move on to reading the PostgreSQL User’s Guide to gain a more formal knowledge of the SQL language, or the PostgreSQL …