Close a database connection

If you want to close the mysql database connection by using php then you should write the following command.

mysql_close($con);


Then the code will be,

<?php $con=mysql_connect("localhost","root","123456"); if(!$con) { die ('Could not connect'.mysql_error()); } mysql_close($con); ?>

Create connection to a database

If you want to connect a mysql database by using php then the command will be:
mysql_connect("host_name", "user_name", "password")

In php we can write it by the following way.


<?php $con=mysql_connect("localhost","root","123456"); if(!$con) { die ('Could not connect'.mysql_error()); } ?>