Maybe someone did a tutorial that shows the important thing: Setting everything up and using it with MySQL?
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2I found this one : [PDO_Tutorial_for_MySQL_Developers](http://wiki.hashphp.org/PDO_Tutorial_for_MySQL_Developers). – Eric Lavoie Jun 10 '13 at 15:50
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3[(The only proper) PDO tutorial](https://phpdelusions.net/pdo) which I wrote based on the thousands questions I answered here on Stack Overflow. – Your Common Sense Feb 09 '16 at 14:06
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I think the article Why you Should be using PHP's PDO for Database Access is great. It is simple, clear, and organized.
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1+1 I agree - BUT, look at the comments, most of the code is syntatially inorrect, as he ommits the `prepare`. Once you get past that, it is a great guide. In fact, it is how I learned. – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jun 02 '14 at 08:43
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They tell you to run an extra query(!) only to count the rows already returned by a query, which is a nonsense. They also tell you to "always wrap your PDO operations in a try/catch" which is a nonsense again. And they fail to explain the real PDO benefits. In essence, PDO learned from tutsplus is toilsome and error prone. – Your Common Sense Feb 09 '16 at 14:41
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MySQL.com: Using MySQL with PDO
PHP.net: PHP Data Objects (PDO)
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PHP.net has the best stuff. I would check out here for an example.
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Something I came across with PDO and BLOBs is that you can use that for encrypted data in MySQL. A good example of using BLOBs with encryption (so information in the database itself is encrypted) can be seen in:
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