Connect to the MySQL database. The following code connects to a database server named "myserver:"mysql_connect('myserver', 'user', 'password') Retrieve a list of tables from the database.

And that’s all there is to creating a table and inserting data into it on MySQL. Once you have all the data necessary, your database is ready for usage by your web-based tool.

What's the preferred way of checking if a table (in the database I'm using) with a certain name already exists? <BR><BR>I am using PEAR's DB class to talk to MySQL and I have an installer script ...