SQL and PHP

[saphirefsnb80]

I've been studying SQL and PHP, but something isn't clicking in my brain about how to use then together. Could someone explain the connection and formatting PHP code with SQL queries or refer me to a tutorial please?

[administrator]

Hi,

PHP has some libraries / functions that are built into PHP that can speak to databases. But databases don't understand PHP, but it does understand SQL. SQL is the coding language of databases. 

So, you use the special PHP functions to send SQL commands to the database.

Makes sense?