[thelist] PHP/MySQL Newbie question

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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.
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PHP uses a native set of functions to interact with MySQL, ODBC is not
needed
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php

$dbconnect = mysql_pconnect("localhost", "username", "password");
mysql_select_db("dbname", $dbconnect);

is a connection to MySQL followed selecting a database to use.

HTH!

Jay