PHP includes functions for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), which is useful if, for example, you want to connect to a Microsoft Access data source on Windows NT. An increasing number of PHP developers are using the ODBC functions to connect to databases; to that end, the ODBC functions are numerous and well-documented in the PHP Manual. This tutorial presents how to make simple ODBC connections using just a few of these functions.

PHP provides built in functions to access just about every database that exists, including Oracle. This 8-page tutorial illustrates how to use these built in functions to communicate with an Oracle database.

PHP provides built in functions to access just about every database that exists. MySQL is well designed, powerful and most importantly free in some situations. In this tutorial, you will learn how to access MySQL using PHP. Main topics include: Create A Database, Create A Table, Insert Entries Into The Table, and Retrieve All Entries Into The Table.

MySQL has a small, highly optimized database engine that implements the entry-level SQL92 specification. Its rich set of support tools lets you create dynamic Web applications such as catalogs, shopping carts, and contact lists. This article introduces MySQL and shows how to develop a simple Web interface to a contact database using MySQL and PHP.

As your website grows you may run into two problems: Your website has so much information that visitors can't quickly find what they want and visitors want to give you information. Both of these problems can be solved by building a database on a website. This introductory article shows you how to do this using basic PHP-MySQL interaction.

This tutorial explains how to access dbm files from PHP using various dbm-PHP functions.

mSQL is a lightweight SQL database engine for Unix systems. It is extremely easy to install and configure and it does a great job of handling simple SQL queries. This tutorial shows you how to communicate with the mSQL database engine using various mSQL-PHP functions.

In this two-page online tutorial you will learn how to create a database-driven site that can display content on request. It covers topics on a simple SQL query interface and more complex example of parsing and querying.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install and configure PHP for use with the Apache Web server on UNIX or the Microsoft Internet Information Server on Windows NT. Then you'll see by example how to use PHP to route HTML conditionally, to develop a simple database-driven Web application, and to track user sessions with cookies.

This article will aid the reader in learning the basic operations of the MySQL server, including how to make a proper connection, set up the server for consequential manipulation and execute basic commands. The commands covered within this article are among the most important commands within the language, as they form the basis for the more advanced commands.