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by David Stanley

Before getting any further into database coding, it will be good practice to call upon the PHP command of include.

The first part of server connection, database selection, and table selection is a repeated snippit, so to save time and effort, we'll put that part into a seperate file and just call it into play when we need it.

db_connect.inc

<?php

// set your infomation.
$dbhost='localhost';
$dbusername='david';
$dbuserpass='mypassword';
$dbname='test';

// connect to the mysql database server.
$link_id = mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbusername, $dbuserpass);

// select the specific database name we want to access.
$dbname=$dbusername."_".$dbname;
if (!mysql_select_db($dbname)) die(sql_error());

?>

The PHP command to call that section of code into action :

include ("db_connect.inc");

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Article by David Stanley. Visit his site http://www.htmlite.com. Reprinted with permission.

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