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PHP MySQL Select
Posted by jujur
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5:30 AM
PHP MySQL Select
The SELECT
statement is used to select data from a database.
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
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Note: SQL
statements are not case sensitive. SELECT is the same as select.
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 MySQL connection.
Example
The
following example selects all the data stored in the "Person" table
(The * character selects all of the data in the table):
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM person");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['FirstName'] . " " . $row['LastName'];
echo "<br />";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>
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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 subsequent call to
mysql_fetch_array() returns the next row in the recordset. The while loop loops
through all the records in the recordset. To print the value of each row, we
use the PHP $row variable ($row['FirstName'] and $row['LastName']).
The
output of the code above will be:
Peter Griffin
Glenn Quagmire
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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:
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM person");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr> <th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . echo $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . echo $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysql_close($con);
?>
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The
output of the code above will be:
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Firstname
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Lastname
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Glenn
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Quagmire
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Peter
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Griffin
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