CHAPTER 35Practical Database Queries

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 implement when building database-driven applications. This chapter explains how to programmatically create these listings, and how to extend the mysqli interface to incorporate new custom functionality.
  • Sorting tabular output: Often, ...

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