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Asked: 2026-05-30T20:37:34+00:00

Please note: I am a game programmer, so backend development isn’t my forte. There

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Please note:

I am a game programmer, so backend development isn’t my forte. There are times, however, where I work with our database at my job. Please don’t shoot me if my question is ridiculous.

Is there a way to create a local mySQL file and access it through PHP or C#?

I know you can make a local webpage on your machine (pretty much for testing purposes) and access multiple locally created files.

I assume that something similar would work with mySQL. (Are the login credentials also stored within the file?) I remember seeing a few online tutorials where it offered a download for both PHP and the database file, but I can’t seem to find them now.

I’ve searched for this, but all the relevant results involved downloading mySQL and hosting a server which is a bit more than I wanted to do.

So if its possible to create a local mySQL, how do you do so?

The tools I intend on using while doing this:
PHP/JQUERY/HTML and C#

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  1. Editorial Team

    For MyISAM tables, inside the MySQL data directory there is one directory per database which contains several (usually three) files per table. For InnoDB tables, they are all contained in several files directly inside the data directory.

    The location of the MySQL data directory is usually set in my.cnf using the datadir parameter.

    The login credentials are stored in a special database called “mysql” which is in that data directory like any other database.

    However, you have to install and run MySQL to access those files. You cannot access them with PHP or any other client API alone. If you want to do such a thing, better use SQLite.

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