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<title>PDO</title>

<blurb>
 The PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension defines a lightweight, consistent
 interface for accessing databases in PHP. Each database driver that
 implements the PDO interface can expose database-specific features as
 regular extension functions.
</blurb>
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<blurb>Supported databases:</blurb>
<list>
	<bullet>DB2</bullet>
	<bullet>Firebird/Interbase</bullet>
	<bullet>MS SQL</bullet>
	<bullet>MySQL</bullet>
	<bullet>Oracle</bullet>
	<bullet>ODBC</bullet>
	<bullet>PostgreSQL</bullet>
	<bullet>SQLite</bullet>
</list>
<example  fontsize="1.3em" align="center" marginleft="10em" marginright="10em"><![CDATA[<?php
$dbh = new PDO('odbc:sample', 'db2inst1', 'ibmdb2');

$cnt = $dbh->exec("DELETE FROM fruit WHERE colour = 'red'");

echo "Deleted $cnt rows.";
?>]]></example>
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