[thelist] PHP/MySQL Newbie question

Robin Hastings robin at rhastings.net
Tue May 21 10:35:01 CDT 2002


On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:08:38AM -0600, hpinson at indepthl.com wrote:
> Hi.  I'm new to PHP, moving from Cold Fusion and Zope.  In Cold
> Fusion, to connect to a database, you need to register the database
> with ODBC.  This does not seem to be the case with PHP.  How
> does PHP see the connection to the MySQL database and
> associated tables?
>
> In Dreamweaver MX, I seem to make a connection to the MySQL
> server, but no databases or tables show up.
>
With PHP you can use the mysql_connect function
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php) to connect to
your database. Check the comments below for some good examples of usage.

Robin
robin at rhastings.net
http://www.rhastings.net



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