© Frank M. Kromann 2018
Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_32

32. Practical Database Queries

Frank M. Kromann1 
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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA
 
The last several chapters served as an introduction to numerous concepts regarding using PHP and MySQL together to retrieve and manipulate data. This chapter expands your knowledge, demonstrating several challenges that you’re bound to repeatedly encounter while creating database-driven web applications. In particular, you’ll learn more about the following concepts:
  • Tabular output: Listing query results in an easily readable format is one of the most commonplace tasks you’ll deal with when building database-driven applications. This chapter explains how to programmatically ...

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