PHP and MySQL Tutorial - Lesson 1 Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL.

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.

Dynamic PHP pages give you the option to choose a MySQL table dynamically from which to query. You must ensure that the table exists before running a query on the table. PHP has a quick function ...

Prepared statements avoid the process of compiling, parsing and running a stored procedure or inline SQL statement in your code. The PHP prepared statement function speeds up the application ...