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PHP Tutorial for Beginners 30 # How to connect to MySQL database using PHP

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'start': 8.995, 'duration': 8.086}, {'end': 18.822, 'text': "So let's get started.", 'start': 17.761, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 38.526, 'text': "I have this blank file so I will save this file first and I will save it as So in here, I'm going to create one more.", 'start': 19.943, 'duration': 18.583}, {'end': 45.829, 'text': 'I will first of all go back, create a folder and I have database.', 'start': 39.286, 'duration': 6.543}, {'end': 62.754, 'text': "Okay And in this database, I'm going to create a file called connect.php.", 'start': 53.351, 'duration': 9.403}, {'end': 80.583, 'text': 'so this will be a file which we are going to use to connect to our mysql database and then we can include or require this file in other files so that we have the connection with the database right.', 'start': 65.976, 'duration': 14.607}, {'end': 86.665, 'text': 'so in order to connect to the database, you need three parameters.', 'start': 80.583, 'duration': 6.082}, {'end': 92.448, 'text': 'first is server name or mysql host name first of all.', 'start': 86.665, 'duration': 5.783}, {'end': 100.107, 'text': 'second is username, which is mysql username, and third is mysql password.', 'start': 93.286, 'duration': 6.821}, {'end': 106.929, 'text': 'so when you go to your php, my admin here and click this icon php,', 'start': 100.107, 'duration': 6.822}, {'end': 115.63, 'text': 'my admin and you will be able to see this users tab here and in here you will be able to see the privileges.', 'start': 106.929, 'duration': 8.701}], 'summary': 'Tutorial on connecting php script to mysql database using phpmyadmin.', 'duration': 115.421, 'max_score': 0.209, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/2gwXRo-FKW0/pics/2gwXRo-FKW0209.jpg'}, {'end': 287.237, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 252.051, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 262.852, 'text': 'so what we can do here is we can use an inbuilt function called MySQL underscore connect.', 'start': 252.051, 'duration': 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'the same.', 'start': 681.73, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 686.234, 'text': 'you can do it with the function called exit.', 'start': 683.031, 'duration': 3.203}, {'end': 687.915, 'text': 'exit and die are same.', 'start': 686.234, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 691.658, 'text': 'okay, so you can either use die or exit.', 'start': 687.915, 'duration': 3.743}, {'end': 693.059, 'text': 'both works like same.', 'start': 691.658, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 694.84, 'text': 'it will kill your page.', 'start': 693.059, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 698.943, 'text': 'okay, so if i am not connected to server, i will die.', 'start': 694.84, 'duration': 4.103}], 'summary': "Using the 'die' or 'exit' function will kill the page when not connected to the server.", 'duration': 37.41, 'max_score': 661.533, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/2gwXRo-FKW0/pics/2gwXRo-FKW0661533.jpg'}, {'end': 835.834, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 808.754, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 818.958, 'text': "and if i'm connected, i go to the else condition and i will check one more condition, which is if i am connected to the student database, right.", 'start': 808.754, 'duration': 10.204}, {'end': 826.55, 'text': 'and then if i am connected to the student database, then i will Will show this message connection successful.', 'start': 818.958, 'duration': 7.592}, {'end': 831.072, 'text': 'this should be Connections and we are not checking false.', 'start': 826.55, 'duration': 4.522}, {'end': 835.834, 'text': 'but for the true, if connection, then we can say connection successful.', 'start': 831.072, 'duration': 4.762}], 'summary': 'Checking for connection to student database; if successful, message shows connection successful.', 'duration': 27.08, 'max_score': 808.754, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/2gwXRo-FKW0/pics/2gwXRo-FKW0808754.jpg'}, {'end': 909.57, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 872.386, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 880.309, 'text': 'right, if you can see here, in the privileges or user we have, user is equal to root localhost and the password.', 'start': 872.386, 'duration': 7.923}, {'end': 886.597, 'text': 'so i will save this and once again i refresh this.', 'start': 881.514, 'duration': 5.083}, {'end': 889.158, 'text': 'and now it says connection success.', 'start': 886.597, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 899.184, 'text': 'okay. so in this way you can connect to the mysql database using your php script.', 'start': 889.158, 'duration': 10.026}, {'end': 909.57, 'text': "right now, in the next video i'm going to show you how you can query your database to get the database values.", 'start': 899.184, 'duration': 10.386}], 'summary': 'Demonstrated successful mysql database connection using php script.', 'duration': 37.184, 'max_score': 872.386, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/2gwXRo-FKW0/pics/2gwXRo-FKW0872386.jpg'}], 'start': 597.79, 'title': 'Conditional 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