Beerwin's blog » PHP http://www.blog.beerwin.com Beerwin's World of Stuff blog - things that have no place on the main site Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:49:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Connecting to a MySQL database with PHP http://www.blog.beerwin.com/2008/05/04/connecting-to-a-mysql-database-with-php/ http://www.blog.beerwin.com/2008/05/04/connecting-to-a-mysql-database-with-php/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 11:58:03 +0000 beerwin http://www.beerwin.com/blog/?p=4 In this tutorial, i will tell, how to connect to an existing MySQL database with an existing username and password.

For the first, we need the database and the credentials for it. If you are using a free web hosting service with PHP and MySQL support, you already have this information.

If you have a web server installed with PHP and MySQL, you have to create a database and a username. Since this is not part of this tutorial i will talk about it in another post.

Now, it’s time to get connected. We will create the db.inc.php file:

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//database connection file// for first, we need to set database name, host, username and password for our connection. Modify them corresponding to your data.

$dbhost=“localhost”;
$dbusername=”your_username”;
$dbpassword=“yourpassword”;
$db=“your_db”;

//If you filled in your data, it’s time to make the connection. Don’t modify anything below this line

$connector = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbusername, $password) or die(‘Could not connect to MySQL!‘);

$db = mysql_select_db($db, $connector) or die(“Couldn’t select database.”);

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