php with mysql

Embedding Structured Query Language (SQL) within PHP, or other programming languages, has been problematic for some. Mixing two programming languages together is just plainly not aesthetically pleasing. Especially when you have a declarative language (SQL) mixed with a procedural-object oriented language. But now, with the MySQL XDevAPI PECL extension, PHP developers can now stop mixing the two languages together together. MySQL Document Store The MySQL Document Store eliminates the heavy burden for SQL skills. It is designed to be a high speed, schema-less data store and is based on the MySQL JSON data type. This gives you roughly a gigabyte of store in a document format to do with as needed. So you do not need to architect you data before hand when you have no idea how it will evolve. No need to normalize your data. Now behind the scenes is a power MySQL database server but you are no longer writing SQL to use it! But Is The Code Ugly? If you looked at previous editions o...

The Video The find() function for the MySQL Document Store is a very powerful tool and I have just finished a handy introductory video. By the way -- please let me have feed back on the pace, the background music, the CGI special effects ( kidding! ), and the amount of the content. The Script For those who want to follow along with the videos, the core examples are below. The first step is to connect to a MySQL server to talk to the world_x schema (Instructions on loading that schema at the first link above). \connect root@localhost/world_x db is an object to points to the world_x schema. To find the records in the countryinfo collection, use db.countryinfo.find() . But that returns 237 JSON documents, too many! So lets cut it down to one record by qualifying that we only want the record where the _id is equal to USA , db.countryinfo.find(‘_id = “USA”’) Deeper Level items in the Document You can reach deeper level items by providing the path to the object such a...

I am starting a series of videos on the MySQL Document Store. The Document Store allows those who do not know Structured Query Language (SQL) to use a database without having to know the basics of relational databases, set theory, or data normalization. The goal is to have sort 2-3 minute episodes on the various facets of the Document Store including the basics, using various programming languages (Node.JS, PHP, Python), and materializing free form schemaless, NoSQL data into columns for use with SQL. The first Episode, Introduction, can be found here. Please provide feedback and let me know if there are subjects you would want covered in the near future.

Docstore versus traditional MySQL I have had quite a few questions from PHP Developers who are very interested in the new MySQL Document Store versus the traditional use of MySQL with PHP. You used to have to write queries in Structured Query Language (SQL) by outing them in strings withing your PHP code. In the past I have heard many folks complain about having to use a programming language within a programming language. And several of you have just skipped all than an started using an ORM. And roughly two percent of the developers at conferences tell me they have had any formal training in SQL, relational theory, or sets! So what changes with Document Store? The first and biggest changing is that you stop writing queries in SQL. SQL is surprisingly hard for many programmers. Part of this is that SQL is a declarative language. CSS is also a declarative language. These languages describe what the desired output looks like. Most other languages assemble the parts to get the desired ...

PHP Developers can now try the MySQL Document Store by using the MySQL X DevAPI for PHP PECL Extension. Developers in other languages have had access for a while but now PHP coders can get in on the action and use the MySQL Document Store. What Does the Code Look Like? #!/usr/bin/php <?PHP // Connection parameters $user = 'root'; $passwd = 'S3cret#'; $host = 'localhost'; $port = '33060'; $connection_uri = 'mysqlx://'.$user.':'.$passwd.'@'.$host.':'.$port; echo $connection_uri . "\n"; // Connect as a Node Session $nodeSession = mysql_xdevapi\getNodeSession($connection_uri); // "USE world_x" $schema = $nodeSession->getSchema("world_x"); // Specify collection to use $collection = $schema->getCollection("countryinfo"); // SELECT * FROM world_x WHERE _id = "USA" $result = $collection->find('_id = "USA"')->execute(); ...