Open a new connection to the MySQL server in PHP

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<?php
    $con=mysqli_init();
    if (!$con){
       die("mysqli_init failed");
    }
   
    mysqli_options($con,MYSQLI_READ_DEFAULT_FILE,"myfile.cnf");
   
    if (!mysqli_real_connect($con,"localhost","root","","test")){
       die("Connect Error: " . mysqli_connect_error());
    }
    
    mysqli_close($con);
?>