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The steps in the process are:

Point a browser to a PHP page. The server will pass this request to the PHP engine which will then read and process the contents of any script inside these opening and closing tags.

In this example, the script connects to a database server, and then to a database on that server.


View a sample connection file here:


Once a connection is made, a query is then performed on the database and the result handed back to PHP, which then passes the information to the web server.