Driver (software)

A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower level interface that is often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device drivers.[1]

This article is about non hardware software drivers. For hardware device drivers, see Device driver.

Example

A client library for connecting to a database is often known as a driver, for example the MySQL native driver for PHP.[2]

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References
  1. "What is a driver?". Microsoft. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  2. "MySQL native driver for PHP - mysqlnd". MySQL. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
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