This is a detailed tutorial intended for the PHP programmer interested in learning more about database connectivity - using the ODBC standard. You should be familiar with PHP syntax and have a working knowledge of databases.

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.

Here is how to work with Excel files and PHP.