The PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension defines a lightweight, consistent interface for accessing databases in PHP.

Features

• Supports 12 different databases
• Object Mapping
• Supports prepared statements
• Supports multiple statements
• Object oriented interface
• Named parameters
• PDO has built-in support for Large Objects (LOBs).
• When something goes wrong, PDO can throw an instance of its own exception class.
• PDO does not emulate missing database features.
• Placeholders within PDO prepared statements need not be named.