How to Test PHP MySQL Database Connection Using Script

Aug 09, 2017, 08:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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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.