Mishel Shaji
Connect PHP to MySQL

Connect PHP to MySQL

Mishel Shaji
Mishel Shaji

To access the data stored in a MySQL database, you should first connect to the MySQL database server. There are ways to connect PHP to MySQL database.

  • mysqli – (i stands for improved)
  • PDO – PHP Data Objects.

In this article, we are using mysqli extension because it has several benefits over PDO when using MySQL database.

Syntax

$conn_name=new mysqli("servername", "username","password", "database_name");

Specify the database_name only if you want to use a default MySQL database.

Connect PHP to MySQL – Object Oriented

<?php
//server=localhost, username=root and password=""
$conn = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "");
if ($conn->connect_error) 
{
    //displaying the connection error
    die($conn->connect_error);
} 
echo "Connected successfully";
//closing the connection
mysqli_close($conn);
?>

Connect PHP to MySQL – Procedural

<?php
//server=localhost, username=root and password=""
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "");
if (!$conn) 
{
    //displaying the connection error
    die(mysqli_connect_error());
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>