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 ...

An informative and fully modular custom local homepage for xAMP stacks (Apache, MySQL, PHP). This locahost index page showcases your projects, displays system stats, and provides admin tools — all now ...

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.

I'm running a local MariaDB server container on localhost and it's configured to allow root logins without a password. It's fine if I use the trilogy adapter to connect to it instead of the mysql2 one ...

Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...