I tried to upload my slides from the conference, but run into problems with a firewall somewhere, so they've had to wait for me to return home.
So, here we are: Using MySQL with PDO (PDF).
This was my first MySQL users conference, and it seemed to go well. Truth be told, I'm not a database fanatic (which is ironic considering my involvement with PDO), so I didn't find a lot of the material to my taste. I did learn a few things from Jim Winsteads embedded mysql talk (something I bet he'll be surprised to hear :) and also Hartmut Holzgraefe's mysqli talk. I also got to chat to Monty about the issues I mentioned and meet some new faces, including my Evil sysadmin, some old and some older faces (Hi Sterling :)
The conference was quite big; 1500 attendees, 6 tech tracks (there were a couple of other non-tech tracks too, but I forget exactly what they covered) and a lot of BOF sessions. If MySQL is your bread and butter, you might want to consider attending the next one.
i thought i had done a good job of not actually conveying any useful information in my embedding talk.
I guess you are the right person to ask what is on everybody's mind: Why does PDO only include the old mysql client libary and not the new mysqli libary?
I've searched but not found any anwser yet to this question. Hope you can help me out.
Thanks, Arnold
The PDO mysql driver supports mysql from version 3 through 5. PHP does not ship client libraries for mysql; they come with mysql.
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