How to Drop Table in phpMyAdmin
From the PHP script if you want to access the MySQL Database you have to first create a connection to the database server with the help of mysqli_connect mysqli function.
MySQL Examples in Both MySQLi and PDO Syntax
In this, and in the following chapters we demonstrate three ways of working with PHP and MySQL:
- MySQLi (object-oriented)
- MySQLi (procedural)
- PDO
MySQLi Installation
For Linux and Windows: The MySQLi extension is automatically installed in most cases, when php5 mysql package is installed.
Open a Connection to MySQL
Before we can access data in the MySQL database, we need to be able to connect to the server:
Example – 1 MySQLi Procedural Example
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<?php $server = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $password = ""; // Create connection $connection1 = mysqli_connect($server, $user, $password); // Check connection if (!$connection1) { die("The Connection is failed: " . mysqli_connect_error()); } echo "Connected successfully"; ?>
In the above example we show that how you can create a connection between database server and php server.