MySQL and PHP

Chapter 3 MySQL Improved Extension

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The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1 and above. More information about the MySQL Database server can be found at http://www.mysql.com/

An overview of software available for using MySQL from PHP can be found at Section 3.1, “Overview”

Documentation for MySQL can be found at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

Parts of this documentation included from MySQL manual with permissions of Oracle Corporation.

Examples use either the world or sakila database, which are freely available.