<?php
    //lets take in some info to connect with
    $dbserver = 'localhost';
    $dbusername = 'somewhereovertherainbow';
    $dbpassword = 'mytummyboxfeelsbroken';
    $dbname = 'somedb';

    //lets make the connection
    mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbusername, $dbpassword);

    //now we need to select the database
    mysql_select_db($dbname);


    //Now lets get a resource that we can pass to mysql_fetch_array to convert to an array
    $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE feild = 'value'");

    //Now we can turn that into an array so we can use the data
    $array = mysql_fetch_array($query);

    //Now lets echo one of the feilds in the database ascociated with the row.
    echo $array['someFieldInTheDataBase'];
?>