Chapter 5: Communicating with the Database from PHP Scripts
In This Chapter
Using PHP built-in functions to access MySQL
Sending SQL queries to the MySQL server
Understanding how to handle MySQL errors
Using other helpful functions
Changing functions from mysqli to mysql
PHP and MySQL work well together, and this dynamic partnership is what makes PHP and MySQL so attractive for web database application development. Whether you have a database full of information that you want to make available to users (such as a product catalog) or a database waiting to be filled by users (for example, a customer database), PHP and MySQL work together to implement your application.
This chapter describes accessing MySQL from PHP scripts.
Knowing How MySQL and PHP Work Together
You interact with the database by passing messages to the MySQL server. As explained in Chapter 1 of this minibook, the messages are composed in the SQL language, a standard computer language understood by most database management ...
