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Asked: 2026-05-15T02:08:28+00:00

I’m interested in learning more about design practices in PHP for Database Abstraction &

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I’m interested in learning more about design practices in PHP for Database Abstraction & Factory methods. For background, my site is a common-interest social networking community currently in beta mode.

Currently, I’ve started moving my old code for object retrieval to factory methods. However, I do feel like I’m limiting myself by keeping a lot of SQL table names and structure separated in each function/method.

Questions:

  1. Is there a reason to use PDO (or similar) if I dont anticipate
    switching databases?

  2. Can PDO interface with the MySqli prepared statements I
    currently use?

  3. Will it help me separate table names from each method? (If no, what
    other design patterns might I want
    to research?)

  4. Will it slow down my site once I have a significantly large member base?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Nettuts recently had an article on some of the benefits to using PDO.

    As for your question regarding abstraction, you might look into Object Relational Mapping (ORM) which lets you access database records the same way you would native php objects. Most of my experience has been with the Kohana framework, and I like how their ORM works, but many of the popular php frameworks should have good examples of database abstraction methods. I find that reading where someone else did it the “right” way helps me out.

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