Connect to MySQL from PHP (PHP <= 5.5.x)
$user = 'root';
$password = 'root';
$db = 'inventory';
$host = 'localhost';
$port = 8889;
$link = mysql_connect(
"$host:$port",
$user,
$password
);
$db_selected = mysql_select_db(
$db,
$link
);