CODE EXAMPLE FOR PHP

pdo connection

//In this PHP DATA OBJECT (PDO) CONNECTION I am gonna use 
//the exception code that will help hide your database login 
//details from your users if there is an exception (error).
 //dbname(database name)
 //charset(characters encoding )

  try {
    $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=joke;charset=utf8','username','password');
    $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE,PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
  echo 'Successfully Connected to the database';
  } catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'ErrorException'.$e->getMessage().'in'.$e->getFile().$e->getCode().$e->getLine();
  }