this question is specifically for jimmy from maryland but anyone can answer it. Its about the Web Development?

how do i connbect my Website to a database? the website i have made is a simple html website with a webpage for customer reply form which i have to connect to a database in my server. I have no idea how this is done please help

Here’s the simple php code to connect to the database. I’ve assumed that you’ve already created the database on your hosting server and you know the hostname, username & password for this particular database.

session_start();

$_SESSION['hostname'] = "s90mysql1.secureserver.net" ;
$_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username'] ;
$_SESSION['password'] = $_POST['password'] ;

function dbconnect($_SESSION['hostname'], $_SESSION['username'], $_SESSION['password'])
{
$_SESSION['conn'] = @mysql_connect($_SESSION['hostname'], $_SESSION['username'], $_SESSION['password']);

if(!$_SESSION['conn'])
{
echo "Connection Failed - Invalid Username/Password!";
header("Location: mylogin.php");
}

if ($_SESSION['conn'])
{
echo "Connection successful";
header("Location: myschedule.htm");
}
}
dbconnect($_SESSION['hostname'], $_SESSION['username'], $_SESSION['password']);

?>

In the above code the fields ‘username’ & ‘password’ come from the form which has been submitted and this php file should be refered to the form submit action. Host name of the database is predefined in the code. After connection is successful, you can redirect the user through the header function.

Hope this helps.

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