Connecting database to my html file via php on VScode

Question

I'm a new developer with little experience in databases and I recently built my first website which was an appointment booking page for a service. However I am unfamiliar with how to store the clients data filled in the website form. Quickly did some research on databases and it got me creating a database in mysqlworkbench. I program on VScode, and now the issue is connecting this database from mysqlworkbench to my html file in vscode via php, however when I run the code the php doesn't run, thus the database is not connected to the html Would anyone know how to go about this?

Answer 1

You should install software like Xampp or Wamp which comes with an apache server as well as PHP and MySQL(for databases) installed.

As I personal preference, I will advise you install Xampp instead.

Answer 2

i hope you have installed the xampp

link to download xampp https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

if yes open xampp and run apache server and mysql from their and follow the steps

example to connect website with database phpmyadmin open phpmyadmin and create a table posts

<?php
$host = "localhost";
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$dbname = "posts";

$conn = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass,$dbname);

if (!$conn) {
   echo "could not connected" . mysqli_connect_error());
}
echo "Connected to database  successfully";
?>