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This book focuses on PHP and its powerful integration with modern data stores, including the industry-leading relational databases MySQL and PostgreSQL, alongside contemporary NoSQL and hybrid solutions like MongoDB, CouchDB, and Redis. PHP has evolved into a mature, full-featured server-side language embraced by both startups and enterprises. The text covers essential interfaces like PHP Data Objects (PDO), which provides a consistent, secure, and portable API for database interaction, and MySQLi. It also delves into advanced features like PostgreSQL's native support for JSONB and Arrays, full-text search, and database sharding for ultimate scalability. "PHP Programming for Database Integration: A Complete Guide to Connecting PHP with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Modern Databases" is a pragmatic guide to building secure, performant, and scalable data-driven PHP applications. Written by Darryl Jeffery, this book is the companion he wished he had for wrestling with prepared statements, troubleshooting persistent connections, and delivering reliable applications under real-world load. It moves beyond basic syntax to cover professional-grade patterns for secure connections, query optimization, data modeling, ORMs like Doctrine and Eloquent, API development (REST/GraphQL), and cloud deployment strategies (CI/CD, Blue-Green deployments). What's inside The guide is organized into 14 chapters and an appendix, covering a comprehensive curriculum for modern PHP-database integration. Key topics include: Secure Data Access: Establishing robust connections using PDO, mastering prepared statements for SQL injection prevention, and implementing transaction management. Database Mastery: Detailed CRUD operations in MySQL, leveraging PostgreSQL's advanced features like JSON and array types, and applying normalization principles and denormalization trade-offs. Mo