Tutorials

PHP Basic Database Handling

by Crayon Violent on Jun 20, 2008 2:06:06 PM

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The Setup

For this tutorial, we are using MySQL as the database. You need to create a table called "info" with 2 columns: "id" type int auto_increment and "name" type varchar(20).

For your convenience I have include a query string to make it. Go to your phpmyadmin or whatever and run it. If you are scratching your head wondering what all this means, then this tutorial isn't really for you. Go read up on how to mess around with your database directly (or at least through something like phpmyadmin) and then come back.

Comments

This is an incredible tutorial, i knew how to handle databases but it was so goood to recap, plus a few little things that i learned, and you have a nice way to explain. I had a great time reading it. Thanks :D

1. fearlex on Jun 27, 2008 3:54:27 PM

We're using ODBC-connect, ODBC_exec, etc. How do I create a new record using ODBC? I don't imagine I can do it with mysql commands?

2. peteschulte on Jul 23, 2008 6:36:06 PM

Well I don't really know anything about ODBC but they do have their own database handling functions in PHP that are very similar to all of the mysql_xxx counterparts. Here is a link to the functions php offers for ODBC: PHP ODBC functions

A kind of skimmed over the functions and it looks like all you really need to do is switch out the mysql_xxx functions with their ODBC_xxx counterparts.

All the code for the form and receiving info from the user etc.. would not need to be altered.

3. Crayon Violent on Jul 26, 2008 3:02:30 PM

I knew that how to handle the database through PHP, but after reading this tutorial i think it's more than i think. It's really good. Thanks!

4. deepshah on Aug 11, 2008 2:05:41 AM

I've just started to learn how to use PHP with MySQL so this tutorial has been *very* useful!

I had already put together scripts and an html form to accomplish similar things to those shown in the tutorial but with the scripts in several seperate .php files. Having everything in one file makes much more sense!

Many thanks

5. ma2tt on Aug 16, 2008 10:29:59 AM
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