You would need special privilege to create or to delete a MySQL database. So assuming you have access to root user, you can create any database using mysql mysqladmin binary.
Here is a simple example to create database called TUTORIALS:
[root@host]# mysqladmin -u root -p create TUTORIALS Enter password:******
This will create a MySQL database TUTORIALS.
PHP uses mysql_query function to create or delete a MySQL database. This function takes two parameters and returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
bool mysql_query( sql, connection );
Try out following example to create a database:
<html> <head> <title>Creating MySQL Database</title> </head> <body> <?php $dbhost = 'localhost:3036'; $dbuser = 'root'; $dbpass = 'rootpassword'; $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass); if(! $conn ) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } echo 'Connected successfully<br />'; $sql = 'CREATE DATABASE TUTORIALS'; $retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn ); if(! $retval ) { die('Could not create database: ' . mysql_error()); } echo "Database TUTORIALS created successfully\n"; mysql_close($conn); ?> </body> </html>
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