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title: Working With Databases
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## What options are available for PHP to connect to a database?
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PHP can connect to a variety of different databases including MongoDB, MsSQL and MySQL.
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Both PHP and MySQL are very popular and provide an easy, free and open source websites
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to be created and are often found together to produce websites of all types.
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Both PHP and MySQL can scale to support large numbers of users.
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PHP even supports more than one way to deal with connections to MySQL including MySQLi Procedural,
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PHP Data Objects (PDO) and MySQLi Object Orientated along with the now deprecated MySQL Connect.
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With PHP there are many features built into the core functionality of the language that make links to a
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database simple and easy.
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Some Examples from Mysqli are-
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<?php
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$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","db_name") or die("Invalid User or Password...cannot connect");
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?>
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here we are connecting to a database on the phpmyadmin structure with no password and database name-db_name
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