Database Abstraction with Zend_Db – Part 1
Database abstraction layers provide an important role in modern web applications built with PHP. They allow you to easily switch your back end database server by changing just a few lines of code in your application.
The Zend Framework provides a powerful database abstraction layer in the form of the Zend_Db component. This tutorial will be looking at the Zend_Db component in closer detail.
In Part 1 we will show you how to use the Zend_Db_Select class to build complex SELECT queries simply and quickly.
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