How to Call a Stored Procedure From PHP in MySQL. Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records.

Stored Procedures Vs. Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQL. The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database.

I write my SQL in Visual Studio, which has not merely syntax highlighting but Intellisense and type checking. Because I'm generally writing LINQ. You can use LINQPad to write ad-hoc queries and ...