Connecting to a mySQL database using mySQLi object-oriented

Connected successfully

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
  die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "<p>Connected successfully</p>";
$conn->close();
?>