<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_db_query</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_data_seek" HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_drop_db" HREF="function.mysql-drop-db.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-drop-db.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-db-query" >mysql_db_query</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18559" ></A >mysql_db_query -- Send an MySQL query to MySQL</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18562" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int mysql_db_query</CODE >(string database, string query, int [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >link_identifier</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Returns: A positive MySQL result identifier to the query result, or false on error. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_db_query()</B > selects a database and executes a query on it. If the optional link identifier isn't specified, the function will try to find an open link to the MySQL server and if no such link is found it'll try to create one as if <A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_connect()</B ></A > was called with no arguments </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_connect()</B ></A >. </P ><P > For downwards compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql()</B > can also be used. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-drop-db.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_data_seek</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_drop_db</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >