Connecting to MySQL database

This tutorial will show you how to connect to mysql database. It's easy to write a script to connect to world's most popular opensource database.

Define your database information:

* host="localhost" you don't have to change it. When it's on your computer or server it still be localhost

Username = mysqluser
Password = 123456
Database = test

$host="localhost";
$username="phpeasystep";
$password="1234";
$db_name="test";

mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect to server");
mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select db");

or

mysql_connect("localhost", "phpeaststep", "1234")or die("cannot connect to server");
mysql_select_db("test")or die("cannot select db");

Creating file config.php

$host="localhost"; $username="phpeasystep"; $password="1234"; $db_name="test"; mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password")or die("cannot connect to server"); mysql_select_db("$db_name")or die("cannot select db"); save this file as "config.php" when you want to use this code include it to your main php file example include("config.php"); $tbl_name="member"; $sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name"; $result=mysql_query($sql); ?>