Re: Connection to existing database

[Phillip Ward]

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But it won't work so far.

Whilst there are some very good people around here, none of them are psychic [as far as I know].
What error(s) do you get when you run the script?

Might it be complaining about something near ',)'?

INSERT INTO testomgevingplugin_horsemanager_horses (id, external_id, name,) VALUES (9089, '9', 'paard')
                                                                         ^ Lose this!  
                                                                         | The comma goes between field names, not after.

As far as the rest goes, The PHP mysqli library is still supported, but showing its age. PDO is the database access Tool of Choice these days.