Dynamically Typed has two new items posted today - the first is that of a new head behind the Dynamically Typed blog - David Mytton.

Secondly, he has posted his first new item - an Introduction to PHP5 PDO, an introductory look into a bit of what makes PDO tick.

After reading the blog post and also Wez Furlong's blog I had a play around with some PDO code. Although there are already some PHP database abstraction classes available, the advantage of PDO is that it will be available in any PHP installation (so long as it is enabled) at runtime, without any need for recompiling. In addition, since it has been written from scratch specifically for PHP 5, it has a high level of performance.

He goes on, showing a bit of sample code on how to work with PDO and how to create a sample object to manipulate. He also gives a handy little chunk of code that explains how to check for the loading of the PDO extension...