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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Paul McFedries
January 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
848 pages
18h 2m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Using PHP to Access MySQL Data

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding web development’s most enduring marriage

Bullet Connecting to a MySQL database with PHP

Bullet Using PHP to access MySQL data with a SELECT query

Bullet Processing the SELECT query results

Bullet Rendering server data to the browser

Bullet Using PHP to run INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries

PHP and MySQL work together to provide powerful, flexible components that can keep up with the expanding database driven development needs of virtually any organization, large or small.

— ISAAC DUNLAP

Run a Google search on the text PHP MySQL "Match made in heaven" and you'll get more than a few results. I'm not surprised one bit because it seems as though these two technologies were meant to be together; a case of love at first byte, as it were.

What’s the secret of their success as a couple? First, it helps that they’re both free (not the usual prerequisite ...

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