27.4. MySQL Database
MySQL database is a way of organising a group of tables. If you were going to create a bunch of different tables that shared a common theme, then you would group them into one database to make the management process easier.
27.4.1. Creating Your First Database
Most web hosts do not allow you to create a database directly through a PHP script. Instead they require that you use the PHP/MySQL administration tools on the web host control panel to create these databases. For all of our examples we will be using the following information:
Server - localhost.
Database - test.
Table - example.
Username - admin.
Password - 1admin.
The server is the name of the server we want to connect to. Because all of our scripts are going to be ...
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