This provides links and further reading for our presentation at the MySQL Conference, on Upgrading to Elegant and Versatile Database Architecture using PHP Data Objects. 

The talk has roots in the last 12 months of work to improve the database code for the SilverStripe open source web development framework. In terms of coding, much of the heavy lifting was done by Philipp Krenn (as part of Google Summer of Code) and SilverStripe core developer Geoff Munn, who continues to work on it.

Slides 

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Projects mentioned:

• Propel and Creole
• ADOdb and ADOdb lite
• PEAR MDB and MDB2
• EZPDO
• www.php.net/pdo

Further reading: 

• Book: Learning PHP Data Objects.
• Background and overview of PDO by core developer
  
• SQL Compatibility Tips
• Tutorial on database abstraction using PHP5 polymorphism