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Introduction
Opening a Connection to a MySQL Database
<?
$db = "database1";
$link = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");
mysql_select_db($db, $link);
?>
Creating a Query
<?
$query = $mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1");
?>
Retrieving data from a SELECT Query
Closing a Database Connection
<? mysql_close(); ?>