Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with ...

You must connect to the database and use the "mysql_query" function to call a MySQL stored procedure from a PHP page.

Establish Connection Before you can extract any information from your MySQL database, you have to establish a connection to it. PHP's mysql_connect function does this.