# PDO

Skill · Web Development

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/pdo

PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a database access layer in PHP that provides a consistent interface for connecting to and querying multiple database types, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, while supporting prepared statements to prevent SQL injection. It's widely used by PHP developers building web applications that need secure, database-agnostic data access. PDO is considered a best-practice alternative to older, database-specific PHP extensions.

Related skills: [MySQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/mysql), [PHP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/php), [Laravel](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/laravel), [MySQLi](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/mysqli)

## Open roles requiring PDO (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.