$hostname = 'localhost'; $username = 'myuser'; $password = 'mypassword'; $database = 'mydatabase'; try { $db = new PDO("mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=$database", $username, $password); $db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); echo "Connected successfully"; } catch(PDOException $e) { echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage(); }
$hostname = 'localhost'; $username = 'myuser'; $password = 'mypassword'; $database = 'mydatabase'; $conn = mysqli_connect($hostname, $username, $password, $database); if (!$conn) { die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error()); } $sql = "SELECT * FROM mytable"; $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql); if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) { while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "Name: " . $row["name"] . " - Age: " . $row["age"] . "In both examples, we're using PHP to connect to a database, execute a query, and display the results. PDO and mysqli are two commonly used package libraries for working with databases in PHP.
"; } } else { echo "0 results"; } mysqli_close($conn);