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    "href": "/post/2005/03/10/pdo-at-wikicc/",
    "relId": "2005/03/10/pdo-at-wikicc",
    "title": "PDO at wiki.cc",
    "author": "pmjones",
    "markup": "html",
    "tags": [
        {
            "href": "/tag/php/",
            "relId": "php",
            "title": "PHP",
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    "created": "2005-03-10 17:26:55 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2005-03-10 17:26:55 UTC"
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    "html": "<p>You can see the PDO Basics entry at wiki.cc <a href=\"http://wiki.cc/php/PDO_Basics\">here</a>.  PDO unifies the various PHP RDBMS function calls; database API abstraction in PHP is a Good Thing.</p>\n<p>But PDO brings something I did not expect: <a href=\"http://wiki.cc/php/PDO_Basics#Introspection\">table instrospection</a>.  You can get meta-information about the statement results that tells you what the native type, size, precision, etc. are for the returned columns.  This can make automated type-checking and conversion super-easy.  Just one more reason I was lucky to think of making <a href=\"http://solarphp.com\">Solar</a> PDO-ready.</p>\n<p>Hey, PDO guys: neat stuff, and thanks!</p>\n"
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