HTML data will appear with data obtained from the MySQL database (Figure 2). Now you know how to use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

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

Right-click the PHP file you want to use to identify the existing table. Click "Open With" and select your PHP editor. Connect to the MySQL database. The following code connects to a database ...