MySQL - PHP Syntax MYSQL

PHP provides various functions to access the MySQL database and to manipulate the data records inside the MySQL database. You would require to call the PHP functions in the same way you call any other PHP function.

MySQL works very well in a combination with various programming languages like PERL, C, C++, JAVA, and PHP. Out of these languages, PHP is the most popular one because of its web application development capabilities.

The following are two of the functions, which we will use in our tutorial −

mysqli_connect($connect);
mysqli_query($connect,"SQL statement");