Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. In the first installment of this three-lesson tutorial, we cover everything you need to ...

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 ...

The PHP development language provides you with a "prepare" function to send a prepared statement to a SQL database. You can use full, inline SQL statements in the prepared statement function or s ...

The latest major revision, MySQL 8, fixes a number of long-standing issues with MySQL—changes major enough to demand a revision to the left of the decimal point.