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Connecting PHP to MySQL and output data stored in rows from a table
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php-mysql-connect.php
<?php
//Step1
$db = mysqli_connect('localhost','root','root','database_name')
or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.');
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP connecting to MySQL</h1>
<?php
//Step2
$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name";
mysqli_query($db, $query) or die('Error querying database.');
//Step3
$result = mysqli_query($db, $query);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $row['FirstName'] . ' ' . $row['LastName'] . ': ' . $row['Email'] . ' ' . $row['City'] .'<br />';
}
//Step 4
mysqli_close($db);
?>
</body>
</html>
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