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| <member>Fetching remote pages and files with <link linkend="book.curl">Curl</link></member> | ||
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| Storing and analyzing data in a database with <link linkend="book.pdo">PDO</link> (and | ||
| <link linkend="ref.pdo-sqlite">SQLite</link>) |
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why call out sqlite specifically?
if you want more than "database," i'd mention several. maybe
Storing and analyzing data in a database with PDO - supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and more
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I wanted to specifically point readers towards SQLite as it's something they can easily run with just the built-in webserver (which the tutorial already has them using).
It's something they can dive into immediately without worrying about extra software, DB-server accounts or networking issues (and while I don't have any recent experience with shared hosting to say definitively, something they should be able to run on a hosted site). If / when readers want to move to server-based DBs, everything they'll have learned with SQLite will be transferable.
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I present a revised "What's Next?" tutorial section, with the aim of better pointing new users towards the manual sections for specific things they may want to achieve, and the range of resources available in the PHP ecosystem more generally.
I am aware the external links need to be pulled out to doc-base, but wanted to get initial feedback before I do that.
All feedback welcome.