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title: Databases
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anchor: databases
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---
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# Databases {#databases_title}
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Many times your PHP code will use a database to persist information. You have a few options to connect and interact
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with your database. The recommended option **until PHP 5.1.0** was to use native drivers such as [mysqli], [pgsql],
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[mssql], etc.
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Native drivers are great if you are only using _one_ database in your application, but if, for example, you are using
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MySQL and a little bit of MSSQL, or you need to connect to an Oracle database, then you will not be able to use the
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same drivers. You'll need to learn a brand new API for each database — and that can get silly.
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[mysqli]: https://www.php.net/mysqli
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[pgsql]: https://www.php.net/pgsql
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[mssql]: https://www.php.net/mssql
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