PHP and MySQL

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 Database Design
• In a relational database, a database is
composed of one or more tables.
• A table is the principal unit of storage in a
database.
• Each table in a database is generally
modeled after some type of real-world
entity
• Eg: customer, product etc

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• A table is a two-dimensional container for
data that consists of records (rows)
• Each record has the same number of
columns, called fields
• Each table will have one special field
called a primary key
• Used to uniquely identify each record in a
table.

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 SQL
• SELECT
• INSERT
• UPDATE
• DELETE

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 Database APIs
• PHP MySQL APIs
1. MySQL extension
• used with versions of MySQL older than 4.1.3.
• replaced with the newer mysqli extension
2. mysqli extension
• provides both a procedural and an object-oriented
approach.
3. PHP data objects (PDOs).
1. This object-oriented API has been available since
2. PHP 5.1

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The mysql_connect() function opens a non-persistent MySQL connection.
This function returns the connection on success, or FALSE and
an error on failure.
Syntax
mysql_connect(server,user,pwd,newlink,clientflag)
Parameter Description
server Optional. Specifies the server to connect to (can also
include a port number, e.g. "hostname:port" or a path to a
local socket for the localhost).
Default value is "localhost:3306"
user Optional. 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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 Example (MySQLi Object-Oriented)
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>

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 Example (MySQLi Procedural)
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";

// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password);

// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>

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 Example (PDO)
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";

try {
$conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=myDB",
$username, $password);
// set the PDO error mode to exception
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE,
PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
echo "Connected successfully";
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}
?>

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 Close the Connection
The connection will be closed automatically when the script ends. To
close the connection before, use the following:

MySQLi Object-Oriented:
$conn->close();

MySQLi Procedural:
mysqli_close($conn);

PDO:
$conn = null;

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 // Create database
$sql = "CREATE DATABASE myDB";
if (mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
echo "Database created successfully";
} else {
echo "Error creating database: " .
mysqli_error($conn);
}

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The mysql_select_db() function sets the active MySQL database.
This function returns TRUE on success, or FALSE on failure.
Syntax
mysql_select_db(database,connection)

Parameter Description
database Required. Specifies the database to select.
connection Optional. Specifies the MySQL connection. If not specified,
the last connection opened by mysql_connect() or
mysql_pconnect() is used.

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The mysql_query() function executes a query on a MySQL database.
This function returns the query handle for SELECT queries,
TRUE/FALSE for other queries, or FALSE on failure.
Syntax
mysql_query(query,connection)
Parameter Description
query Required. Specifies the SQL query to send (should not
end with a semicolon).
connection Optional. Specifies the MySQL connection. If not specified,
the last connection opened by mysql_connect() or
mysql_pconnect() is used.

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The mysql_fetch_array() function returns a row from a recordset as an
associative array and/or a numeric array. This function gets a row from
the mysql_query() function and returns an array on success, or FALSE
on failure or when there are no more rows.
Syntax
mysql_fetch_array(data,array_type)
Parameter Description
data Required. Specifies which data pointer to use. The data
pointer is the result from the mysql_query() function
array_type Optional. Specifies what kind of array to return.
Possible values:
MYSQL_ASSOC - Associative array
MYSQL_NUM - Numeric array
MYSQL_BOTH - Default. Both associative and numeric array
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The mysql_fetch_object() function returns a row from a recordset as an object.
This function gets a row from the mysql_query() function and returns an object
on success, or FALSE on failure or when there are no more rows.
Syntax
mysql_fetch_object(data)
Parameter Description
data Required. Specifies which data pointer to use. The data
pointer is the result from the mysql_query() function
Tips and Notes
Note: Each subsequent call to mysql_fetch_object() returns the
next row in the recordset.

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The mysql_affected_rows() function returns the number of affected rows
in the previous MySQL operation. This function returns the number of
affected rows on success, or -1 if the last operation failed.
Syntax
mysql_affected_rows(connection)
Parameter Description
connection Optional. Specifies the MySQL connection. If not specified,
the last connection opened by mysql_connect() or
mysql_pconnect() is used.

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The mysql_num_rows() function returns the number of rows in a recordset.
This function returns FALSE on failure.
Syntax
mysql_num_rows(data)
Parameter Description
data Required. Specifies which data pointer to use.
The data pointer is the result from the mysql_query() function

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The mysql_result() function returns the value of a field in a recordset.
This function returns the field value on success, or FALSE on failure.
Syntax
mysql_result(data,row,field)
Parameter Description
data Required. Specifies which result handle to use. The data
pointer is the return from the mysql_query() function
row Required. Specifies which row number to get.
Row numbers start at 0

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field Optional. Specifies which field to get. Can be field offset,
field name or table.fieldname. If this parameter is not defined
mysql_result() gets the first field from the specified row.
Tips and Notes
This function is slower than mysql_fetch_row(),
mysql_fetch_array(), mysql_fetch_assoc() and
mysql_fetch_object().

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The mysql_error() function returns the error description of the last
MySQL operation. This function returns an empty string ("") if no error occurs.
Syntax
mysql_error(connection)
Parameter Description
connection Optional. Specifies the MySQL connection. If not specified,
the last connection opened by mysql_connect() or
mysql_pconnect() is used.

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The mysql_close() function closes a non-persistent MySQL connection.
This function returns TRUE on success, or FALSE on failure.
Syntax
mysql_close(connection)
Parameter Description
connection Optional. Specifies the MySQL connection to close.
If not specified, the last connection opened by
mysql_connect() is used.

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die — Equivalent to exit()

Description
This language construct is equivalent to exit().

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exit — Output a message and terminate the current script

Description
void exit ([ string $status ] )
void exit ( int $status )
Terminates execution of the script.

Parameters
status
If status is a string, this function prints the status just before exiting.
If status is an integer, that value will also be used as the exit status.
Exit statuses should be in the range 0 to 254, the exit status 255 is
reserved by PHP and shall not be used. The status 0 is used to
terminate the program successfully.
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• A typical web database transaction consists of the
following stages, which are numbered in the Figure 1:

1. A user’s web browser issues an HTTP request for a

particular web page. For example, using an HTML form,
she might have requested a search for all books at
MikkeliOnlineProfessionalBooks.com written by Leila
Karjalainen. The search results page is called
results.php.

2. The web server receives the request for results.php,

retrieves the file, and passes it to the PHP engine for
processing.

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Browser 6
Web Server

5 2

MySQL Server 4
PHP Engine

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 3. The PHP engine begins parsing the script. Inside the
script is a command to connect to the database and
execute a query (perform the search for books). PHP
opens a connection to the MySQL server and sends on
the appropriate query.

4. The MySQL server receives the database query,

processes it, and sends the results - a list of books -
back to the PHP engine.

5. The PHP engine finishes running the script, which

usually involves formatting the query results nicely in
HTML. It then returns the resulting HTML to the web
server.
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 6. The web server passes the HTML back to the
browser, where the user can see the list of books she
requested.

• The above described process is basically the same

regardless of which scripting engine or database server
you use.
• Sometimes the web server, PHP engine, and database
server all run on the same machine.
• However, it is quite common for the database server to
run on a different machine. You might do this for reasons
of security, increased capacity, or load spreading. From
a development perspective, this approach is much the
same to work with.
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• First example reads in and displays the contents of the
Friend table from the database Future.
• Our script will do the following jobs:
– Set up a connection to the appropriate database
– Query the database table
– Retrieve the results
– Present the results back to the user

• First we need to create the needed database and

database table – this time we will do it directly using
MySQL Query Browser:

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• Next the PHP script:

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 …and what you can see from the browser:

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 ‘$sqlResult = mysql_query...’

• When you select items from a database using

mysql_query(), the data is returned as a MySQL
result. Since we want to use this data in our program we
need to store it in a variable. $sqlResult now holds
the result from our mysql_query().

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 ‘while($sqlRow =
mysql_fetch_array( $sqlResult…)’

• The mysql_fetch_array function gets the next-in-line

associative array from a MySQL result. By putting it in a
while loop it will continue to fetch the next array until
there is no next array to fetch. This function can be
called as many times as you want, but it will return
FALSE when the last associative array has already been
returned.

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 1. We can retrieve the next associative array from our
MySQL resource, $sqlResult, so that we can print out
the retrieved information.
2. We can tell the while loop to stop printing out
information when the MySQL resource has returned the
last array, as FALSE is returned when it reaches the end
and this will cause the while loop to halt.

• A resource is a special variable, holding a reference to

an external resource.

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• In the above script, we have accessed the firstName
column like this: $sqlRow[‘firstName’]. That can
also be done by using integer indexing:

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• Or finding out the number of rows in a recordset:

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• Or returning a row from a recordset as an object

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• In the next example we will insert one row to the Friend
table. First directly from web server to the database
server without any user interface.

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 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 Friend table, file database3.html:

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• When a user clicks the submit button in the HTML form
in the example above, the form data is sent to
database3.php.
• The database3.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 Friend table.
• Here is the database3.php page:

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• A minor modification to the database3.php example:
Let’s test that all the HTML fields have at least
something inputted:

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• The following example selects the same data as the
example above, but will display the data in an HTML
table:

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