Hi Trevor, Thank You for your suggestion, yeah i think caching is something i definitely want to look at and something thats important, and there is a big project coming up, its pretty much the biggest i've taken up so far, theres also a mobile app for android which needs to be done, so caching definitely is something i wanna look at. I've also downloaded RedBean, will play around on the same, looks Cool ! :) Thanks, Vinay On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Donahue Trevor <donahue.trevor@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi Vinay, > No, using native mysql_* statement isn't always faster. Advantages are > obvious, as mentioned in the article you shared (object mapping, security, > performance), there's always things like caching and other stuff you don't > want to reinvent the wheel for and on big projects tend to be really > useful. So imho it's better using things like pdo. > Another thing... try using ORM http://redbeanphp.com sliced my dev type > in 4 :) > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Vinay Kannan <vinykan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> I came across this article. >> >> http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/pdo-vs-mysqli-which-should-you-use/ >> >> Though I've been working with PHP for over 2 yrs, i never bothered to use >> the techniques mentioned in the articles like this. >> What i do for DB connections and queries..is just simple sql queries in >> php, >> $sql="{sql query}"; >> $runsql=mysql_query($sql); >> >> What i do take care is to clean the user inputs before querying the DB. >> >> Is this a good way? Coz i've seen more experienced programmers using the >> techniques mentioned in the article, with PDOs, MySQLi etc... >> >> I always thought there is a chance that these might slow the querying >> process? >> >> Please advice. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Vinay Kannan. >> > >
