Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with ...

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you can ...

Next, use PHP's mysql_select_db function to choose a database on the server. Upon a successful connection, you can now use other PHP functions to query the database and display the results on your ...