This directory contains recipes showing how to connect to the MySQL server. The languages demonstrated are:

Java: Connect.java

PHP: connect.php

Perl: connect.pl

Python: connect.py

Ruby: connect.rb

Go: connect.go

The "connect2" and "connect3" scripts in this directory show alternative methods for connecting to the server, generally by specifying a TCP/IP port number or Unix domain socket file value other than the default.

The "connect4" scripts show how to specify the character set at connect time.