The PHP extension for MySQL database is packaged with the PHP 5 download (see Resources). First, you need to activate the MySQL extension in the php.ini configuration file. Remove the ';' before this ...

Now you have an existing MySQL database, so you can write the PHP code to perform the preceding steps. Begin with the search form. The code for this plain HTML form is shown in Listing 11.1.

How to Create a MySQL 8 Database User With Remote Access Your email has been sent At some point, you're going to need to connect to a MySQL 8 database remotely to manage your databases. Here's how ...

Connect to the MySQL database. The following code connects to a database server named "myserver:"mysql_connect('myserver', 'user', 'password') Retrieve a list of tables from the database.