Chapter 4: Publishing MySQL Data on the Web
This is it—the stuff you signed up for! In this chapter, you’ll learn how to take information stored in a MySQL database and display it on a web page for all to see.
So far, you’ve written your first PHP code and learned the basics of MySQL, a relational database engine, and PHP, a server-side scripting language.
Now you’re ready to learn how to use these tools together to create a website where users can view data from the database and even add their own.
MySQL and MariaDB
As in Chapter 3, I’m using “MySQL” here to refer to the database protocol. Your PHP scripts will do the same. There are numerous references in this chapter—and in the PHP code you’ll write—to “MySQL”, even though we’re actually ...
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