Emysql implements a stable driver toward the MySQL database. It currently support fairly recent versions (somewhere around 5.3+) and it is considered fairly stable in production.
Over the past few years, students taking my Perl/CGI course continued to ask me when I would be graduating from CGI
to PHP, and whether I would offer a course or write a PHP “by Example” book. I didn’t really take the idea of a book
seriously until