Monday, January 28, 2008

Communicating with the MySQL server

All your interaction with the database is accomplished by passing messages to the MySQL server. You can send messages to the MySQL server several ways, but this book focuses on sending messages using PHP. The PHP software has specific statements that you use to send instructions to the MySQL server.
The MySQL server must be able to understand the instructions that you send it. You communicate by using SQL (Structured Query Language), which is a standard language understood by many RDBMSs. The MySQL server understands SQL. PHP doesn’t understand SQL, but it doesn’t need to: PHP just establishes a connection with the MySQL server and sends the SQL message over the connection. The MySQL server interprets the SQL message and follows the instructions. The MySQL server sends a return message, stating its status and what it did (or reporting an error if it was unable to understand or follow the instructions).

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