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Geeks404.com: Setting Up an Internet Database II: Basic Functions

[ Thanks to BeOpen
for this link. ]

“After following the steps described in the first article of
this series, your system is prepared to handle PHP calls to your
MySQL database from within a web page.”

“In this article, we will make some SQL calls for creating
and manipulating your database.
SQL is a very straightforward
language that is extremely easy to both use and understand. And,
while those parts of SQL that we’ll cover for this article will be
enough for now, it’s always a good idea to dig deeper. Take a look
at the MySQL documentation at mysql.com to get a fuller
understanding of how SQL works.”

“First let’s look at an example of how entries in a database can
be read and displayed on a web page. We’ll create the database we
want to collect entries from, and write the PHP code that collects
the entries and shows them on the web page.”


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