getting information from an SQL database

[jcvertin]

I have an SQL database that stores user names. I would like one of my web pages to count the number of users in this database and display the amount on the screen. I don't know how you access/open a database using PHP. I think I have the correct code for counting users in the database:

Number of registered users: select count(*) from
advdev.alumni_login;

I just don't know how to make this work in a web page.

Thanks, jcv