CH-6

PHP working with

MySQL Database
With PHP, you can connect to and manipulate databases.
➢ MySQL is the most popular database system used with PHP.
✓ is a database system used on the web
✓ is a database system that runs on a server
✓ is ideal for both small and large applications
✓ is very fast, reliable, and easy to use
✓ It uses standard SQL
✓ PHP combined with MySQL are cross-platform (you can develop in
Windows & serve on a Unix platform) & is free to download &use
✓ MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter: My

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Opening Database Connection
Before we can access data in the MySQL database,
we need to be able to connect to the server:
➢ mysql_connect function is used to open a
database connection
➢ This function returns TRUE on success, or
FALSE on failure.
➢ have 3 main parameters
➢ mysql_connect(‘host’,’username’,’pwd’);

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Parameter Description
Host: Optional. Specifies the server to connect to (can also
include a port number, e.g. "hostname:port").
Default value is "localhost:3306“Optional.
Username: Specifies the username to log in with. Default
value is the name of the user that owns the server process

Pwd: Optional. Specifies the password to log in with. Default is ""

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(‘error connecting ’ . Mysql_error());
}
//code here
mysql_close();// closes the connection
?>

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 Creating Database in PHP
➢PHP uses mysql_query function to create
a MySQL database.
➢takes two parameters and returns TRUE
on success or FALSE on failure
➢mysql_query( sql, connection );

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting” . Mysql_error());
}
echo “Connection successful”;
$createdb = mysql_query(“CREATE Database dbname”, $con );
if(! $createdb )
{
die(“Could not create database: “. mysql_error());
}
mysql_close();
?>
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 Selecting a Database
➢Once you establish a connection with a
database server then it is required to
select a particular database where your
all the tables are associated
➢b/c there may be multiple DBs on the
server
mysql_select_db (db_name, con);

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting “ . Mysql_error());
}
If(mysql_select_db(“db_name”, $con))
{
echo “database selected”;
}
mysql_close();
?>

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 Creating Database Tables
➢same thing as creating the database
➢using mysql_query() function.
CREATE TABLE table_name
(
column_name data_type,
PRIMARY KEY(column_name)
);
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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error conn ecting “ . Mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“name”, $con);
$sql = “CREATE TABLE student (Name varchar(20),
Id INT(5))”;
mysql_query($sql, $con);
mysql_close();
?>

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 Deleting a Database in PHP

mysql_query() function used to

drop database.
DROP DATABASE databasename;

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting ”. Mysql_error());
}
$sql = “DROP DATABASE databasename”;
mysql_query( $sql, $con );
mysql_close();
?> 12
 Deleting a Tables in PHP
mysql_query() function used to drop
table from database.
➢ DROP TABLE tablename;

Inserting Data to MySQL DB

➢Data can be entered into MySQL tables by
executing SQL INSERT statement through
PHP function mysql_query.

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting “ . Mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“db_name”, $con);
$sql = “insert into table_name values(‘value1’, ‘value2’)”;
mysql_query($sql, $con);
mysql_close();
?>

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 Getting Data From MySQL
➢by executing SQL SELECT statement through
PHP function mysql_query.
➢mysql_fetch_array() used to fetch.

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting “ . Mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“db_name”, $con);
$sql = "select * from student";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['Name'];
echo ': ' . $row['Id'];
echo '<br>';
}
mysql_close();
?>
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 Updating data in MySQL
➢UPDATE statement through PHP
function
➢mysql_query.
Deleting Data from MySQL
➢SQL DELETE statement through PHP
function
➢mysql_query.

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting” . Mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“db_name”, $con);
$sql = "UPDATE student set Name = ‘value1'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die("error updating
row" . mysql_error());
mysql_close();
?>
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<?php
$con = mysql_connect(“localhost”,”root”,”root”);
if (!$con)
{
die(“error connecting “ . Mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db(“db_name”, $con);
$sql = “DELETE from student WHERE Name = ‘value'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die("error Deleting row" .
mysql_error());
mysql_close();
?>
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 Exercise

• Create a form with name and password

• Create a database named ‘Member’
• Create a table named ‘Admin’
• Insert the form data to ‘Admin’ table
when the user clicks submit.

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