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PHP Tutorials - Information Needed for MySQL Connection

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What Do You Need to Connect PHP to MySQL?

If you want to access MySQL database server in your PHP script, you need to make sure that MySQL module is installed and turned on in your PHP engine. Check the PHP configuration file, php.ini, to make sure the extension=php_mysql.dll is not commented out.

The MySQL module offers a number of functions to allow you to work with MySQL server. Some commonly used MySQL functions are:

• mysql_connect -- Open a connection to a MySQL Server
• mysql_close -- Close MySQL connection
• mysql_db_query -- Send a MySQL query
• mysql_fetch_array -- Fetch a result row as an associative array, a numeric array, or both
• mysql_free_result -- Free result memory
• mysql_list_tables -- List tables in a MySQL database
• mysql_list_fields -- List MySQL table fields

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1. How To Install MySQL Server?
2. How To Use MySQL Command Line Interface?
3. What Do You Need to Connect PHP to MySQL?
4. How To Connect to MySQL from a PHP Script?
5. How To Create a Database?
6. How To Select an Exiting Database?
7. How To Run a SQL Statement?
8. How To Create a Table?
9. How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement?
10. How To Insert Data into a Table?
11. How To Insert Rows Based on SELECT Statements?
12. What Is a Result Set Object?
13. How To Query Tables and Loop through the Returning Rows?
14. How To Update Existing Rows in a Table?
15. How To Delete Existing Rows in a Table?
16. How To Quote Text Values in SQL Statements?
17. How To Quote Date and Time Values in SQL Statements?
18. How To Perform Key Word Search in Tables?
19. How To Query Multiple Tables Jointly?
20. How To Set the ID Column as Auto-Incremented?
21. How To Get the Last ID Assigned by MySQL?