MySQL Connection Test Page

The plan here is to use a database to store comments, feedback or blog-type text. Visitors can browse these comments and add/edit their own.

I have a database and I can add tables and data using phpMyAdmin.

Connecting to database

This is taken by example from the W3C Schools site.

The connection code is common(ish) in the two examples above. The ouput is just and echo (to the std output i.e. the screen) of the contents of the table.

Displaying a comment field

I need to create a table for this. This is if I wanted to create an interactive website