Clear explanations and tutorial exercises are provided on SQL Server connection; providing port number; selecting database; running SQL statements; checking execution errors; looping through query result; looping through result fields.
mysql_connect - connects to MySQL server
mysql_select_db - select database
mysql_query - send query
mysql_num_fields - get number of fields
mysql_fetch_field - get field information
mysql_query - send query
mysql_fetch_row - get current row from result table
mysql_free_result - free result table from memory
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