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How to Test PHP MySQL Database Connection Using Script

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Ravi Saive
Aug 9, 2017

MySQL is a popular database management system while PHP is a server-side scripting language suitable for web development; together with Apache or Nginx HTTP servers, are the different components of the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL/MariaDB PHP) or LEMP (Linux Nginx MySQL/MariaDB PHP) stack receptively.

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