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Working with PostgreSQL from PHP uses the same PDO and PDO_PGSQL APIs no matter where your database runs. Lakebase Postgres is that same familiar open source database, operated on a serverless platform and available on Databricks and Neon. Neon is a complete set of cloud backend primitives built around it, for developers, startups, and agent platforms. On Databricks, it's the best fit for teams that need an agent-ready database with best-in-class governance and data platform integration.
This PostgreSQL PHP section shows you how to interact with the PostgreSQL database using PHP Data Objects (PDO) API. It guides you through the steps of performing the common database operations in PHP, including creating new tables, inserting data, updating data, querying data, deleting data, using transactions, calling stored procedures, and handling binary large objects.
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The PHP Data Objects (PDO) defines a unified interface for accessing relational databases in PHP. Each database defines the database-specific driver that implements the PDO interface. Additionally, each driver can expose the database-specific features as regular extension functions.
Many PHP distributions include the PDO_PGSQL driver that allows you to interact with PostgreSQL databases through the PDO API.
- Connecting to a PostgreSQL database – shows you how to set up a simple PHP application structure and connect to a PostgreSQL database.
- Creating new PostgreSQL database tables – walks you through the steps of creating database tables in PostgreSQL using PHP.
- Inserting data into PostgreSQL tables – guides you on how to insert data into a table using PHP PDO.
- Updating data in the table – provides you with the steps of updating data in the database tables.
- Querying data from a table – shows you various ways to query data in the PostgreSQL database from PHP.
- Performing transactions – explains the transaction concept and shows you how to perform transactions in PHP.
- Working with the binary large objects (BLOB) – shows you how to insert, select, and delete large objects in PostgreSQL using PHP.
- Calling PostgreSQL stored procedures – explains to you the steps of calling PostgreSQL stored procedures from PHP.
- Deleting data in a PostgreSQL table using PHP PDO – teaches you how to delete data from the PostgreSQL table in the PHP application using PDO.