The PHP class library for MySQL has various functions to connect with the database, create database tables and retrieve database data. Create a MySQL Database Table ...

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.

The "echo" statement appears only if the information is successfully saved. Finally, calling "mysql_close" closes the database connection.

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of connecting the DBeaver GUI tool to a remote MySQL server.