PHP provides mysql_connect function to open a db connection
This function takes 5 parameters.

1.server
2.user
3.passwd
4.new_link
5.client_flags

<?php
$dbhost='localhost:8080';
$dbuser='root';
$dbpass='root';
$conn=mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass);
if(!$conn)
{
die('could not connect:'. mysql_error());
}
echo 'connected successfully';
$sql='CREATE Database test_db';
$retval=mysql_query($sql,$conn)
if(!$retval)
{
die('Could not create db:'. mysql_error());
}
echo "db created";
$sql='CREATE TABLE employee('.
     'emp_id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,'.
     'emp_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,'.
     'emp_address VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,'.
     'emp_salary INT NOT NULL,'.
     'join_date timestamp(14) NOT NULL,'.
     'primary key(emp_id))';
mysql_select_db('test_db')
$retval=mysql_query($sql,$conn)
if(!$retval)
{
die('Could not create table:'. mysql_error());
}
echo "table created successfully";
mysql_close($conn);
?>
?>