To connect to a database in PHP, you use the connect function from the module that is specific to your database brand. For example, to connect to a MySQL database located on your Web server, you ...

This process involves connecting to the database, querying it for data and presenting the data in HTML, often by using a server side scripting language such as PHP.

However, when you attempt to connect to a remote MySQL database server, you’ll run into a couple of issues. I’m going to show you how to overcome those problems, so you can work with your ...