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In this course, author Bill Weinman shows how to architect PostgreSQL databases and integrate them into web applications using PHP. The course covers the basics of creating tables, storing data with data types, and working with expressions, operators, and strings. The course also explores the differences between the PDO and pgsql interfaces and demonstrates managing a database in PHP. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

    Installing PostgreSQL
    Understanding database architecture
    Inserting, updating, and deleting data in a table
    Creating a database library
    Indexing ID fields
    Storing numbers, text, and Boolean values
    Reading data
    Using casts to force type
    Using mathematical functions
    Concatenating strings
    Working with date and time functions and operators
    Defining CRUD
    Using PHP to insert, read, update, and delete rows in a database