Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, an open source project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale.

Use the PHP extension for MySQL to access data from the MySQL database.

Already the MySQL database project has started to fracture into competing forks, while business rivals like EnterpriseDB and IBM collect confused customers.

Using a combination of PHP and MySQL functions, you can query an online database for numerical values, add them together and display the results on your Web page. You have to use the functions in ...