When you are using php you first need to connect to the mysqli database by using simple php query. <\/p>\n
Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n [php]<?php \/\/ Create connection \/\/ Check connection Code Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n In the above php query, we have first declared the variables To connect we will call the php function We created a variable called On next step, we are verifying the connection by using if statement.<\/p>\n [php]if ($conn->connect_error) { In the if statement we are checking if the connection is successful or not by using the When you are using php you first need to connect to the mysqli database by using simple php query. Example: [php]<?php $servername = "localhost"; $username<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mddir.com\/how-to\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$servername = "localhost";
\n$username = "username";
\n$password = "password";
\n$database = "databasename";<\/p>\n
\n$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);<\/p>\n
\nif ($conn->connect_error) {
\n die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
\n}
\necho "Connected successfully";
\n?>[\/php]<\/p>\n$servername, $username, $password, $database<\/code>. This is the login information to connect the mysqli database. <\/p>\nmysqli()<\/code> <\/p>\n$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);<\/code><\/p>\n$conn<\/code> and trying to connect the database by using our variable details.<\/p>\n
\n die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
\n} [\/php]<\/p>\nconnect_error<\/code> condition. if it fails to connect then our die()<\/code> error function will be a call to show the message “Connection failed<\/code>” and it will show the error message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"