Hello
I am no PHP expert but I find it quite easy to move from Perl to PHP.
PHP too has a huge standard library with lots of useful functions and it
has PEAR, something similar to CPAN.
but when I develop MySQL appliction (mainly for myself at the moment) I
use Python or Ruby. they are
hello
for mysql_create_db() use mysql_query() and give an
SQL Statement (CREATE DATABASE XYZ) as an argument.
the same for mysql_drop_db (DROP DATABASE).
for mysql_connect: use mysql_real_connect.
the same is valid if you are using the Ruby MySQL
Modul. but it is very easy to extend the Ruby
