I just realized that I used in constants in my connect example and your variables in blue. your blue variables are the same as the constants.

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Thanx a lot pal molotov!
That's very clear to me, and yeah, I know what you're talking about "database", and it IS a "schema" that I was thinking, but I'm not sure. So, we actually still have to CREATE the schema ourself from the phpMyAdmin or query manually right? (which I think is better because I'm sure that we don't want the application to create the schema each time it's loaded, but it would be nice if there's some kind of installation file that will run it once) That's nice graphical explanation with "natural" language

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You shouldn't really be creating or changing schema with re-usable scripts, although a lot of online projects have an 'install' script that is run once in order to create the scheme that it will use.

So yes, you can create the database and tables/fields that you need via phpMyAdmin:



Also, if you noticed in the screen, you shouldn't be using root anywhere on the Internet, this is just a screen shot from my personal development machine. Shame on me.

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