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.

This is a tutorial on how to create a web database application using PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X or Linux platforms. The example used is a database to manage web site links. The same ideas used in this tutorial can be expanded to most web applications like phone directories, personalization, survey polls, etc... All are based on inserting, displaying and managing data in a database.

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.

This simple tutorial shows you how to write form data to MySQL database using PHP. Includes a sample code and instructions.

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 tutorial is an introductory guide to get you started in the world of server-side-scripting and web databases. It covers installation and configuration of MySQL, Apache, and PHP. An example script is also included as a guide for making your own server-side-scripts. You will have accomplished after successfully completing this guide: setup the MySQL database server, setup the Apache web server, setup the PHP 3.0 Hypertext Preprocessor for server-side-scripting, and create a simple web enabled database.