<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_create_db</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_connect" HREF="function.mysql-connect.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_data_seek" HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-create-db" ></A >mysql_create_db</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN58354" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_create_db -- Create a MySQL database</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN58357" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_create_db</B > ( string database name [, resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_create_db()</B > attempts to create a new database on the server associated with the specified link identifier. </P ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > on success or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN58373" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. MySQL create database example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $link = mysql_pconnect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password") or die("Could not connect: " . mysql_error()); if (mysql_create_db("my_db")) { print ("Database created successfully\n"); } else { printf ("Error creating database: %s\n", mysql_error()); } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > For downwards compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql_createdb()</B > can also be used. This is deprecated, however. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The function <B CLASS="function" >mysql_create_db()</B > is deprecated. It is preferable to use <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A > to issue a SQL CREATE DATABASE Statement instead. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-drop-db.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_drop_db()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_connect</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_data_seek</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >