MySQL

APIs Available for MySQL

To facilitate application development, MySQL provides a client library written in the C programming language that allows you to access MySQL databases from within any C program. The client library implements an application programming interface (API) that defines how client programs establish and carry out communications with the server.

However, you are not limited to using C to write MySQL programs. Many other language processors are either written in C themselves or have the capability of using C libraries, so the MySQL client library provides the means whereby MySQL bindings for these languages can be built on top of the C API. This gives you many choices for writing applications that talk to the MySQL server. Client ...