MySQL_ Original Driver to PDO Comparative Table
Introduction:
This table is not intended to be a tutorial or a guide to PDO, but to provide a correspondence between MySQL_ and PDO. So, some important PDO commands are missing, if they don't have a MySQL_ correspondence.
Among these omitted commands, there is a major PDO feature, the prepared statements. I strongly recommend to use it, also if only cited in this guide.
This is a very extended answer. I'm sorry for the low quality of spelling (I'm not english) and for the typos. I will try to correct and improve it in the next few days. Any suggestion or contribution is welcome.
Naming Conventions:
To avoid misunderstanding, in this answer I use:
- MySQL, to refer to MySQL Database and to MySQL Queries;
- MySQL_, ro refer to php MySQL Original API.
In PDO, we have two major object types, the PDOObject (the connection between PHP and a database server) and the PDOStatement (a prepared statement and, after the statement is executed, an associated result set). In this answer, variable names are:
$dbh, refer to PDOobject;$stmt, refer to PDOStatement.