August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
13h 15m
English
Perhaps the simplest task you can perform with a database and PHP is to extract data from a table and display it in an HTML table. The table could contain a catalog of items for sale, a list of projects, or a list of Internet name servers and their ping times. For illustration purposes, I'll use the first scenario. Imagine that a supermarket wants to list the items they have for sale on their Web site. As a proof of concept, you must create a page that lists some items from a database. We'll use the test database that's created when MySQL is installed. The PHP script for viewing the catalog of products will reside on the same machine as the database server.
The first step is to create the table. Listing 17.1 ...
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