SAMS – Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data.

Say, for example, you have servers set up specifically for database and web: Your web server hosts an instance of WordPress that needs to be able to access the remote MySQL server.

Oracle is updating its widely used open source MySQL database, and a range of associated products, in order to meet the increasing demands of Web users. In the past decade, “The Web has ...