Continuing the company's shift to openness and interoperability, Microsoft yesterday released an updated PHP driver for SQL Server.

Using WebMatrix with PHP, OData, SQL Azure, Entity Framework and More I've written before about Microsoft's overtures to the PHP community, with the August release of PHP Drivers for SQL Server being ...

Should a SQL statement contain an error, PHP will return a cryptic, incomprehensible warning message via the driver. In debugging, it has been helpful to echo out the offending queries.

PHP is a scripting language that acts as a middleman between HTML and SQL commands that enable you to work directly with the database.

The transactions needed to store information in the database require Structured Query Language (SQL) commands placed inside a PHP script.