relational databases

New in the PHP manual: a mysqli quickstart. You are new to PHP but you know how to code, you know SQL, you know relational databases and MySQL?

Then, I hope, this is for you. All you need is a quick overview on the concepts? The rest is ...

On PHPMaster.com today (disclaimer: PHPMaster is a SitePoint website) Timothy Boronczyk has posted a review of SitePoint's latest offering for PHP developers - Writing Cutting-Edge Code (by Lorna Mitchell, Davey Shafik and Matthew Turland).

I’m happy to say that I will be speaking at this year’s ZendCon—the Zend PHP Conference for Developers.

I’ll be presenting a tutorial on Learning CouchDB during the first day of the conference.

Chris Tankersley has posted his look at the Lithium framework as someone familiar with frameworks, just not one quite like this.

Ivo Jansch:

In case you weren't able to make it to the latest webcast from the php|architect TEK-X series - Kristina Chodorow on MongoDB - you can catch it all here in the recording of the event.

Simplicial Databases, David I. Spivak.

Relational databases are not necessarily the best choice for modern Web applications. A new generation of alternatives is emerging.

MongoDB is one of the best emergent solutions. And it's open source.

I have been contemplating the use of document-stores in my Ruby apps for a few months (you might remember my MongoMapper post from back in June), and I've been following developments in the No-SQL movement.

MongoDB a is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database written in C++.

It's sort of a cross between scalable key/value stores and traditional functionality-rich relational databases.