How To Connect to a MySQL Database using PHP Script
So you think you can dance.. err… program? You want to build a website, not a plain static site using only HTML programming language, but a dynamic one where you will be able to store data. Remember that even blogs like this one use PHP/MySQL. All your user’s input, comments, feedbacks, contact info essential for your business to follow up on them, is stored in a database. You will have access to this database and run queries to extract your needed data.
These are our weapons: Apache Server, PHP knowledge, MySQL. Let’s start this step-by-step tutorial.