Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file.

Next, use PHP's mysql_select_db function to choose a database on the server. Upon a successful connection, you can now use other PHP functions to query the database and display the results on your ...

The MySQL Workbench GUI is cross-platform, open source, and incredibly easy to use.

Because MySQL is such a popular database, I thought it would be a great data source to use as an illustration. This will also refresh your memory on how to set MySQL up for remote connections.