Connecting to mysql via php.
<?php
$servername = "hostname";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";
$loggedin = false;
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_error)
{
//handle it
}
?>
this is nice to keep in a separate file (inc/conn.php) which can be included into other pages via;
require_once 'inc/conn.php';