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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
You can only do so much with storing information in files. When you need to store large amounts of data, and perform intensive number crunching on that data, there is nothing better than a good SQL database. In this section, we'll discuss connecting PHP to a MySQL database and perform queries and retrieve data back | You can only do so much with storing information in files. When you need to store large amounts of data, and perform intensive number crunching on that data, there is nothing better than a good SQL database. In this section, we'll discuss connecting PHP to a MySQL database and perform queries and retrieve data back from the database. | ||
== Opening a Connection to a MySQL Database == | == Opening a Connection to a MySQL Database == | ||