7. Data Persistence

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to perform filesystem-related operations (read, write, copy, move, and remove); read big files line by line and read CSV files one record at a time; download files via the browser using PHP; connect to MySQL RDBMS using PHP; create a database and a table, and insert records into a MySQL database using PHP; query, update, and delete data from MySQL DB using PHP; and secure MySQL queries using prepared statements in PHP.