Once you have established that you can connect to the database successfully in your script, you can build on the basic code to present your data to site users.

Now, having worked with MySQL to create a database, we can begin connecting this database to a web-based front end.

Use a DSN-less connection (i.e. with no data source defined on the server) to connect the program to your database for simplicity. You will need to use HTML to format the data.