У PHP имеется несколько способов взаимодействия с базой данных MySQL. Как объектно-ориентированные так и процедурные.
Рассмотрим объектно-ориентированный подход с использованием класса Mysqli
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world"); /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error()); exit(); } /* Create table doesn't return a resultset */ if ($mysqli->query("CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE myCity LIKE City") === TRUE) { printf("Table myCity successfully created.\n"); } /* Select queries return a resultset */ if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT Name FROM City LIMIT 10")) { printf("Select returned %d rows.\n", $result->num_rows); /* free result set */ $result->close(); } /* If we have to retrieve large amount of data we use MYSQLI_USE_RESULT */ if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM City", MYSQLI_USE_RESULT)) { /* Note, that we can't execute any functions which interact with the server until result set was closed. All calls will return an 'out of sync' error */ if (!$mysqli->query("SET @a:='this will not work'")) { printf("Error: %s\n", $mysqli->error); } $result->close(); } $mysqli->close()