PHP & MySQL - Tutorial

PHP provides MySQLi extension which was introduced with PHP version 5.0.0. The MySQL Native Driver was included in PHP version 5.3.0. i in MySQLi stands for improved in MySQLi. This extension allows you to access MySQL database servers. It is designed to work with MySQL version 4.1 and above. It provides various functions and methods which is used to access the MySQL database and to manipulate the data records. The MySQLi functions and methods should be called in the same way as any other PHP functions and methods.

About Tutorial

This tutorial is intended for students and professionals interested in studying basic and advanced concepts of using PHP to access and manipulate MySQL database. In this tutorial you will learn how to create new database, perform various operations on database like insert new records, update records, delete records and view records etc in MySQL using PHP language. We believe in learning by examples therefore each and every topic is explained with lots of examples that makes you learn the concept in a very easy way.

Prerequisite

Before continuing with this tutorial, you should have a good understanding of PHP programming language. As we going to deal with MySQL database, a prior exposure of MySQL Database will be beneficial.