Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes

Chapter 19. Using a MySQL Database

In this lesson you will learn how to access a MySQL database from PHP. The pairing of PHP and MySQL is so popular and powerful that it is quite rare to find PHP being used without MySQL—or at least some other database back end.

Using MySQL

This lesson assumes that you already have MySQL installed on your web server and that PHP has the MySQL module loaded. For information on installing MySQL, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Installing.html, and to learn how to activate MySQL support in PHP, refer to Lesson 23, “PHP Configuration.”

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Further Reading. To learn about the MySQL database, read Sams Teach Yourself ...