A simple module that connects to MySQL databases. No need to hardcode your credentials.

Here are a few considerations to keep in mind if you’re running a VirtualBox VM with MySQL on it, and need an application on your host operating system to be able to connect to it.

In this first part of a series on implementing a PHP/MySQL-based API endpoint for our data, we go over some basic principles, as well as stated goals, that will guide the work we’ll be undertaking later.