Create a Connection to a MySQL Database
Before you can access data in a database, you must create a connection to the database.In PHP, this is done with the mysql_connect() function.
Syntax
Example
In the following example we store the connection in a variable ($con) for later use in the script. The "die" part will be executed if the connection fails:
Closing a Connection
The connection will be closed automatically when the script ends. To close the connection before, use the mysql_close() function:
