Connecting to a MySQL database

- One of the primary reasons PHP is so popular…is its close pairing with MySQL,…a robust, freely available database solution.…Happily, you can incorporate the MySQL Server…into your Google App Engine project.…It wouldn't be a viable platform for PHP…without that connection.…Once you deploy your app,…you'll work with a Google Cloud SQL instance…which we'll cover in Chapter 5.…In this lesson, I will show you the one very specific detail…that you'll need to ensure is correct…so you can develop your PHP MySQL app locally…with the app engine SDK.…

I've set up a MySQL database…called gae_sample.…If you're following along, you can import the SQL file…which is called gae_ sample.sql…and it's found in the Chapter 3,…03_04, Start, assets folder…of the exercise files.…I've used phpMyAdmin but you can use…whatever program will import the data.…The database has a table called students…and you see the students listed here.…

There are 50 random names here,…always fun to read (laughs)…and some equally random values for…whether they are registered or not…