Practical C Programming

How it works...

We will start by invoking the mysql_init function to initialize a MYSQL object by the name conn. We will then pass the MYSQL object conn to the mysql_real_connect function that we invoked to establish a connection to the MySQL server running at the specified host. Several other parameters will also be passed to the mysql_real_connection function, including a valid user ID, password, host details, and the database with which we want to work. The mysql_real_connect function will establish a connection to the MySQL server running at the specified host and will declare a MYSQL object conn as the connection handler. This means thar conn can connect to the MySQL server and the commerce database wherever it is used.

The program will ...