Configure the Database Connection

On the Php code add the following database connection script to check your existing database on the MySQL server

code php

//DATABASE CONNECTION
$host = 'localhost';
$db   = 'it30_lab_db';
$user = 'root';
$pass = '';
$charset = 'utf8mb4';

$dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db;charset=$charset";

$options = [
    PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE            => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
    PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
    PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES   => false,
];

try {
    $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $user, $pass, $options);
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    die("Database connection failed: " . $e->getMessage());
}

You can add echo scripts to on the try catch block to check if the connection had succeed or failed.

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