Connecting to a database To connect to a database in PHP, you use the connect function from the module that is specific to your database brand. For example, to connect to a MySQL database located ...

Tom Fenton shows you two ways to overcome the gotchas when setting up an ODBC connection to a remote database. This article is a follow-up to one I wrote in August 2017, "How To Set Up a SQL Express ...

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with ...

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.