When / where do we use PDO?

Question

I want to know when and where do we use PDO besides simple mysql_connect methods?

Is this PDO faster? What are the advantages over other methods?

Answer 1

• Security: The most useful thing with PDOs are prepared statements. Using them to write code that can be SQL Injected is much more difficult .; -)

• Error Handling: On the other hand, error handling is much better, since you can switch to Exceptions rather than false FATALs ERRORS, etc.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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