Now you have an existing MySQL database, so you can write the PHP code to perform the preceding steps. Begin with the search form. The code for this plain HTML form is shown in Listing 11.1.

The PHP extension for MySQL database is packaged with the PHP 5 download (see Resources). First, you need to activate the MySQL extension in the php.ini configuration file. Remove the ';' before this ...

However, when you attempt to connect to a remote MySQL database server, you’ll run into a couple of issues. I’m going to show you how to overcome those problems, so you can work with your ...