March 2011
Beginner
528 pages
12h 37m
English
Content preview from PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fourth Edition
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12. Intro to Databases
In This Chapter
Creating and Selecting a Database 343
Inserting Data into a Database 352
Retrieving Data from a Database 361
Deleting Data in a Database 366
The Internet wouldn’t be where it is today if not for the existence of databases. In fact, PHP probably wouldn’t be as popular or as useful if not for its built-in support for numerous types of databases. This chapter will use MySQL as the example database management system (DBMS). Although MySQL—which is available for most platforms—may not be as powerful as the highest-end commercial database ...