how to connect to a database using php code example

Example 1: php connect to mysql

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";


Simplified

$conn = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');
$database = mysqli_select_db($conn, 'database');

Example 2: using mysql database with php

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "yourusername"; // For MYSQL the predifined username is root
$password = "yourpassword"; // For MYSQL the predifined password is " "(blank)

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);

 
// Check connection

 if ($conn->connect_error) {

    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

echo "Connected successfully";

?>