Connect to a database
August 10, 2010 by tutorials · Leave a Comment
Before you can access data in a database, you must create a connection to the database.
In PHP, this is done with the mysql_connect() function.
Syntax:
mysql_connect(servername,username,password);
Parameter
Description
servername
Optional. Specifies the server to connect to. Default value is “localhost:3306″
username
Optional. Specifies the username to log in with. Default value is the name of the user that owns the server [...]
MySQL
August 10, 2010 by tutorials · Leave a Comment
MySQL is the most popular open-source database system.
The data in MySQL is stored in database objects called tables.
A table is a collections of related data entries and it consists of columns and rows.
Databases are useful when storing information categorically. A company may have a database with the following tables: “Employees”, “Products”, “Customers” [...]