PHP Connecting to MySQL

<?php
  $servername = "localhost";
  $username = "name_of_the_user"; 
  $password = "users_password";
 
  // Create connection
  $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password); 
  // Check connection  
  if ($conn->connect_error) 
  {      
     die("Failed to connect: " . $conn->connect_error);
  }  
   echo "Connected successfully";  
?>