There's many ways to connect to a MySQL database.

But before we start, you will need the following:

• = can be acquired from the administrator
  host name - *
  username - *
  password - *
  database name - *

After you have those, let's get started!: First, set a variable to our MySQL connection(mysql_connect), and give it values.

<?php $connection = mysql_connect("host name", "username", "password") if($connection) mysql_select_db("database name") or die("Couldn't connect to database!") echo "Connected to MySQL!" ?>

Save that file as mysql_connection.php.

Now, to explain. The first line, after the "<?php", just sets our mysql_connect() function to it so that we can use the variable to tell if it succeeds or fails.

After that, we use our if($connection) to see if the $connection variable failed or succeeded. If it did, set our database using mysqlselectdb().

NOTE: If you see "Connected to MySQL!" you followed the tutorial right!:)