Question

How to connect to MySQL database with PHP Data Objects (PDO) in PHP

Answer 1

$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'user';
$db_password = 'password';
$db_name = 'database_name';

try 
{
    $con = new PDO("mysql:host=".$db_host.";dbname=".$db_name, $db_user, $db_password);
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}

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Answer 2

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "your_username";
$password = "your_password";
$db_name = 'your_database_name';

try
{
    $con = new PDO("mysql:host=".$servername.";dbname=".$db_name, $username, $password);
    echo "Connection Success";
    $con = null;
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}

/*
run:

Connection Success

*/

 

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