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PHP & My. SQL ' Slide materials are based on W 3 Schools PHP tutorial, http: //www. w 3 schools. com/php/ ' PHP website http: //www. php. net/ ' My. SQL website http: //www. mysql. com/ 1/20/2022 1

My. SQL ' ' What is My. SQL? My. SQL is a database. The data in My. SQL is stored in database objects called tables. A table is a collections of related data entries and it consists of columns and rows. ' Databases are useful when storing information categorically. A company may have a database with the following tables: "Employees", "Products", "Customers" and "Orders". 1/20/2022 2

My. SQL ' Database Tables ' A database most often contains one or more tables. Each table is identified by a name (e. g. "Customers" or "Orders"). Tables contain records (rows) with data. ' Below is an example of a table called "Persons“. The table above contains three records (one for each person) and four columns (Last. Name, First. Name, Address, and City). 1/20/2022 3

My. SQL ' Queries ' A query is a question or a request. ' With My. SQL, we can query a database for specific information and have a recordset returned. ' Look at the following query: SELECT Last. Name FROM Persons ' The query above selects all the data in the "Last. Name" column from the "Persons" table, and will return a recordset like this: ' Last. Name Hansen Svendson Pettersen 1/20/2022 4

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database Create a Connection to a My. SQL Database ' Before you can access data in a database, you must create a connection to the database. ' In PHP, this is done with the mysql_connect() function. ' Syntax 1/20/2022 5

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' ' Example In the following example we store the connection in a variable ($con) for later use in the script. The "die" part will be executed if the connection fails: <? php $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "peter", "abc 123"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: '. mysql_error()); } // some code ? > 1/20/2022 6

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database Closing a Connection ' The connection will be closed automatically when the script ends. To close the connection before, use the mysql_close() function: <? php $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "peter", "abc 123"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: '. mysql_error()); } // some code mysql_close($con); ? > 1/20/2022 7

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' ' Create a Database The CREATE DATABASE statement is used to create a database in My. SQL. ' ' Syntax CREATE DATABASE database_name To learn more about SQL, please visit SQL tutorial. To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query() function. This function is used to send a query or command to a My. SQL connection. ' 1/20/2022 8

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' ' Example The following example creates a database called "my_db": <? php $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "peter", "abc 123"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: '. mysql_error()); } if (mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE my_db", $con)) { echo "Database created"; } else { echo "Error creating database: ". mysql_error(); } mysql_close($con); ? > 1/20/2022 9

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' ' Create a Table The CREATE TABLE statement is used to create a table in My. SQL. Syntax CREATE TABLE table_name ( column_name 1 data_type, column_name 2 data_type, column_name 3 data_type, . . ) ' ' To learn more about SQL, please visit SQL tutorial. We must add the CREATE TABLE statement to the mysql_query() function to execute the command. 1/20/2022 10

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' Example: The following example creates a table named "Persons", with three columns. The column names will be "First. Name", "Last. Name" and "Age": 1/20/2022 11

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' ' ' Important: A database must be selected before a table can be created. The database is selected with the mysql_select_db() function. Note: When you create a database field of type varchar, you must specify the maximum length of the field, e. g. varchar(15). The data type specifies what type of data the column can hold. For a complete reference of all the data types available in My. SQL, go to Data Types reference. 1/20/2022 12

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' Primary Keys and Auto Increment Fields ' Each table should have a primary key field. ' A primary key is used to uniquely identify the rows in a table. Each primary key value must be unique within the table. Furthermore, the primary key field cannot be null because the database engine requires a value to locate the record. ' The following example sets the person. ID field as the primary key field. The primary key field is often an ID number, and is often used with the AUTO_INCREMENT setting. AUTO_INCREMENT automatically increases the value of the field by 1 each time a new record is added. To ensure that the primary key field cannot be null, we must add the NOT NULL setting to the field. 1/20/2022 13

PHP My. SQL Connect to a Database ' Example $sql = "CREATE TABLE Persons ( person. ID int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, PRIMARY KEY(person. ID), First. Name varchar(15), Last. Name varchar(15), Age int )"; mysql_query($sql, $con); 1/20/2022 14

PHP My. SQL Insert Into ' ' ' Insert Data Into a Database Table The INSERT INTO statement is used to add new records to a database table. Syntax It is possible to write the INSERT INTO statement in two forms. The first form doesn't specify the column names where the data will be inserted, only their values: INSERT INTO table_name VALUES (value 1, value 2, value 3, . . . ) ' The second form specifies both the column names and the values to be inserted: INSERT INTO table_name (column 1, column 2, column 3, . . . ) VALUES (value 1, value 2, value 3, . . . ) 1/20/2022 15

PHP My. SQL Insert Into ' To get PHP to execute the statements above we must use the mysql_query() function. This function is used to send a query or command to a My. SQL connection. ' Example ' In the previous chapter we created a table named "Persons", with three columns; "Firstname", "Lastname" and "Age". We will use the same table in this example. The following example adds two new records to the "Persons" table: 1/20/2022 16

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PHP My. SQL Insert Into ' Insert Data From a Form Into a Database ' Now we will create an HTML form that can be used to add new records to the "Persons" table. ' Here is the HTML form: 1/20/2022 18

PHP My. SQL Insert Into ' When a user clicks the submit button in the HTML form in the example above, the form data is sent to "insert. php". ' The "insert. php" file connects to a database, and retrieves the values from the form with the PHP $_POST variables. ' Then, the mysql_query() function executes the INSERT INTO statement, and a new record will be added to the "Persons" table. ' Here is the "insert. php" page: 1/20/2022 19

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PHP My. SQL Select ' Select Data From a Database Table ' The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database. ' Syntax SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ' To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query() function. This function is used to send a query or command to a My. SQL connection. 1/20/2022 21

PHP My. SQL Select ' The following example selects all the data stored in the "Persons" table (The * character selects all the data in the table): 1/20/2022 22

PHP My. SQL Select ' The example above stores the data returned by the mysql_query() function in the $result variable. ' Next, we use the mysql_fetch_array() function to return the first row from the recordset as an array. Each call to mysql_fetch_array() returns the next row in the recordset. The while loops through all the records in the recordset. To print the value of each row, we use the PHP $row variable ($row['First. Name'] and $row['Last. Name']). ' The output of the code above will be: Peter Griffin Glenn Quagmire 1/20/2022 23

PHP My. SQL Select ' Display the Result in an HTML Table ' The following example selects the same data as the example above, but will display the data in an HTML table: 1/20/2022 24

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PHP My. SQL The Where Clause ' The WHERE clause is used to extract only those records that fulfill a specified criterion. Syntax SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name WHERE column_name operator value ' To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query() function. This function is used to send a query or command to a My. SQL connection. 1/20/2022 26

PHP My. SQL The Where Clause ' The following example selects all rows from the "Persons" table where "First. Name='Peter': <? php $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "peter", "abc 123"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: '. mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("my_db", $con); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Persons WHERE First. Name='Peter'"); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo $row['First. Name']. " ". $row['Last. Name']; echo " "; } ? > The output of the code above will be: Peter Griffin 1/20/2022 27

PHP My. SQL Order By Keyword The ORDER BY Keyword ' The ORDER BY keyword is used to sort the data in a recordset. ' The ORDER BY keyword sort the records in ascending order by default. ' If you want to sort the records in a descending order, you can use the DESC keyword. ' Syntax SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column_name(s) ASC|DESC 1/20/2022 28

PHP My. SQL Order By Keyword ' The following example selects all the data stored in the "Persons" table, and sorts the result by the "Age" column: Output 1/20/2022 29

PHP My. SQL Order By Keyword ' Order by Two Columns ' It is also possible to order by more than one column. When ordering by more than one column, the second column is only used if the values in the first column are equal: SELECT column_name(s) FROM table_name ORDER BY column 1, column 2 1/20/2022 30

PHP My. SQL Update ' Update Data In a Database ' The UPDATE statement is used to update existing records in a table. ' Syntax UPDATE table_name SET column 1=value, column 2=value 2, . . . WHERE some_column=some_value Note: Notice the WHERE clause in the UPDATE syntax. The WHERE clause specifies which record or records that should be updated. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records will be updated! 1/20/2022 31

PHP My. SQL Update ' Example ' Earlier we created a table named "Persons". Here is how it looks: ' The following example updates some data in the "Persons" table: 1/20/2022 32

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PHP My. SQL Delete ' Delete Data In a Database ' The DELETE FROM statement is used to delete records from a database table. ' Syntax DELETE FROM table_name WHERE some_column = some_value Note: Notice the WHERE clause in the DELETE syntax. The WHERE clause specifies which record or records that should be deleted. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records will be deleted! ' To get PHP to execute the statement above we must use the mysql_query() function. This function is used to send a query or command to a My. SQL connection. 1/20/2022 34

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