Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

Stored procedures provide PHP programmers with pre-programmed database applications that retrieve and edit MySQL records. Stored procedures let you send parameters to the database program, so you ...

Enter WampServer, an open source product that installs a PHP-apps-ready platform consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, plus several helpful GUI-based utilities.

The MySQL Workbench GUI is cross-platform, open source, and incredibly easy to use.