Simple mysqli connection: <?php $conn1=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","databasename"); if($conn1) { echo "<script>console.log('Connection ok');</script>"; }else{ echo "<script>console.log('Connection not ok');</script>"; } ?> Mysqli is the improved version of mysql. Now-a-days whenever you write mysql, it will show you error as mysqli is introduced. To use mysqli such as mysqli_query all you need to do is just put your connection name Ex: $conn1 (like our code) in your mysqli_query. Ex: mysqli_query($conn1, "SELECT * FROM databasename"); Some mysqli functions which is used frequently are given below: mysqli_query() mysqli_num_rows() mysqli_fetch_assoc() mysqli_fetch_array() mysqli_close() mysqli_connect_error() mysqli_error() mysqli_fetch_all() mysqli_free_result()
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