I am new PHP from Perl, How to connect MySql from PHP under linux environment.?

Question

How to get example codes for bigginers in PHP. I am very much interested do learn PHP 5.0 and Mysql 5.0 in linux environment.

Answer 1

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root");



mysql_select_db("mydb",$db);

You probably DONT want to use root to connect but change that to your username for the database you setup. You probably will also need the password for that user.

That connects you.
If you want a good starting place for tutorials
try.
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a.html
http://www.goodphptutorials.com/category/basic-and-beginner/1/10/popular

Answer 2

The best place to learn php is from the guys that made the darn thing.

http://www.php.net

look up mysql in the function list

RJ

Answer 3

The syntax of connection from php to MySql database is:
mysql_connect("host name","login","password");
here,
(1) mysql_connect is the name of function
(2)hostname will be localhost if your database and webserver is same else check your host settings for external database server.
(3)login and password is root and blank in default in easyphp, else provide your custom created

eg:
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root",""); //connect to database and store the connection point to $db
mysql_select_db("mydb",$db); //select the database name mydb from connection $db

Search in Yahoo/Google for "php beginner tutorials"

Answer 4

in case you desire to alter right into a utility engineer, and not an internet site programmer, i strongly recommend perl. it rather is a well-known language, and not an basic one. yet Hypertext Preprocessor is nearly limited to internet progression, whilst Perl may be used for each thing.

Answer 5

The best way is to include a variation of the DB object from PEAR:
require_once "DB.php";
$db = DB::connect("mysql://user:password@host/database");

[etc]...

Answer 6

www.phpfreaks.com , www.mysql.org , Good luck :)