By Stephon Unomon
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Making the connection
to MySQL...
First off, we need to be able to tell PHP to connect to a
database before we can use it. The command is straight forward -
mysql_connect().
<?php
$dbhost = "localhost"; // the db’s server
$dbname = "mysite_dbname"; // the db’s name
$dbuser = "mysite_dbuser"; // the db’s username
$dbpass = "password"; // the password for the
user
mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die
(mysql_error()); //connect to db or show error if failure
echo "Connected to database";
?>
Looking at the above code, everything is pretty self
explanatory...except the “or die” thing. This is a method of handling errors.
If for some reason PHP cannot connect to the database, the “or
die(mysql_error())” part tells PHP to show us exactly what the error was. Most of
the time it is human error - the wrong username, password, etc. was entered in
the code. Check your work!
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