The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database.
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[color=FA0309]Select Data From a Database Table[/color]
The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database. [color=FA0309]Syntax[/color]
The following example selects all the data stored in the "Person" table (The * character selects all of the data in the table):
The following example selects the same data as the example above, but will display the data in an HTML table:
Glenn Quagmire
Peter Griffin
The SELECT statement is used to select data from a database. [color=FA0309]Syntax[/color]
SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name
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.
[color=FA0309]Example[/color]FROM table_name
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);
?>
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:
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$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);
?>
Peter Griffin
Glenn Quagmire
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[color=FA0309]Display the Result in an HTML Table[/color]Glenn Quagmire
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>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>"; mysql_close($con);
?>
The output of the code above will be:
Firstname Lastname $con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$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>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>"; mysql_close($con);
?>
Glenn Quagmire
Peter Griffin