How to Access MySQL from PHP ?
In this tutorial, we are going to access MySQL database from PHP. Accessing MySQL from PHP is very simple and easy to implement. PHP contains built-in functions to connect the MySQL database and to access the data. Those functions are,
- mysqli_connect – To connect the database by using the specified configuration.
- mysqli_query – To execute a query to get resource id.
- mysqli_fetch_row – To read row data with the reference of the resource id. There are many MySQL fetch functions in PHP to read table rows.
I have added an example code for accessing MySQL database from PHP. I used the database table named animals on which the create, read, update and delete (CRUD) functionalities are going to be performed.
