Connecting to MySQL database?

[DJ RRebel]

cool ... Thanks TONS !!! ... so all I need to worry about after that is the particular querie and what to do with it? Like as follows?


$query_results = mysql_query("SELECT column_a, column_b, column_c FROM table_xyz;");

Then use whatever HTML and various PHP looping/if/then statements needed, with the following to show what I wanted to show:

$rowdata = mysql_fetch_array($query_results);
echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($rowdata("column_nam e"));