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PHPMySQL + FTP

Create a PHPMySQL web app in Azure App Service and deploy using
FTP
By Robert McMurray https://github.com/rmcmurray
Updated: 11082016
In this article:

Create a web app and set up FTP publishing

Build and test your app locally
Get MySQL and FTP connection information
Publish your app
Next steps
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This tutorial shows you how to create a PHPMySQL web app and how to deploy it using FTP. This tutorial assumes you have PHP
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php, MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/installing.html, a web server, and an FTP client installed on your
computer. The instructions in this tutorial can be followed on any operating system, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Upon completing this guide, you will
have a PHP/MySQL web app running in Azure.
You will learn:
How to create a web app and a MySQL database using the Azure Portal. Because PHP is enabled in Web Apps by default, nothing special is required to run
your PHP code.
How to publish your application to Azure using FTP.
By following this tutorial, you will build a simple registration web app in PHP. The application will be hosted in a Web App. A screenshot of the completed
application is below:

Note:
If you want to get started with Azure App Service before signing up for an account, go to Try App Service http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?
LinkId=523751, where you can immediately create a shortlived starter web app in App Service. No credit cards required, no commitments.

Create a web app and set up FTP publishing

Follow these steps to create a web app and a MySQL database:
1. Login to the Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com.
2. Click the + New icon on the top left of the Azure Portal.

3. In the search type Web app + MySQL and click on Web app + MySQL.

4. Click Create. Enter a unique app service name, a valid name for the resource group and a new service plan.

5. Enter values for your new database, including agreeing to the legal terms.

6. When the web app has been created, you will see the new app service blade.
7. Click on Settings > Deployment credentials.

8. To enable FTP publishing, you must provide a user name and password. Save the credentials and make a note of the user name and password you create.

Build and test your app locally

The Registration application is a simple PHP application that allows you to register for an event by providing your name and email address. Information about
previous registrants is displayed in a table. Registration information is stored in a MySQL database. The app consists of two files:
index.php: Displays a form for registration and a table containing registrant information.
createtable.php: Creates the MySQL table for the application. This file will only be used once.
To build and run the app locally, follow the steps below. Note that these steps assume you have PHP, MySQL, and a web server set up on your local machine,
and that you have enabled the PDO extension for MySQL http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdomysql.php.
1. Create a MySQL database called registration . You can do this from the MySQL command prompt with this command:
mysql>createdatabaseregistration;

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2. In your web server's root directory, create a folder called registration and create two files in it one called createtable.php and one called index.php .
3. Open the createtable.php file in a text editor or IDE and add the code below. This code will be used to create the registration_tbl table in the
registration database.

<?php

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//DBconnectioninfo
$host="localhost";
$user="username";
$pwd="password";
$db="registration";
try{
$conn=newPDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db",$user,$pwd);
$conn>setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE,PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$sql="CREATETABLEregistration_tbl(
idINTNOTNULLAUTO_INCREMENT,
PRIMARYKEY(id),
nameVARCHAR(30),
emailVARCHAR(30),
dateDATE)";
$conn>query($sql);
}
catch(Exception$e){
die(print_r($e));
}
echo"<h3>Tablecreated.</h3>";
?>

Note:
You will need to update the values for $user and $pwd with your local MySQL user name and password.

4. Open a web browser and browse to http://localhost/registration/createtable.php http://localhost/tasklist/createtable.php. This will create the
registration_tbl table in the database.
5. Open the index.php file in a text editor or IDE and add the basic HTML and CSS code for the page the PHP code will be added in later steps.
<html>
<head>
<Title>RegistrationForm</Title>
<styletype="text/css">
body{backgroundcolor:#fff;bordertop:solid10px#000;
color:#333;fontsize:.85em;margin:20;padding:20;
fontfamily:"SegoeUI",Verdana,Helvetica,SansSerif;
}
h1,h2,h3,{color:#000;marginbottom:0;paddingbottom:0;}
h1{fontsize:2em;}
h2{fontsize:1.75em;}
h3{fontsize:1.2em;}
table{margintop:0.75em;}
th{fontsize:1.2em;textalign:left;border:none;paddingleft:0;}
td{padding:0.25em2em0.25em0em;border:0none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Registerhere!</h1>
<p>Fillinyournameandemailaddress,thenclick<strong>Submit</strong>toregister.</p>
<formmethod="post"action="index.php"enctype="multipart/formdata">
Name<inputtype="text"name="name"id="name"/></br>
Email<inputtype="text"name="email"id="email"/></br>
<inputtype="submit"name="submit"value="Submit"/>
</form>
<?php
?>
</body>
</html>

6. Within the PHP tags, add PHP code for connecting to the database.

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//DBconnectioninfo

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$host="localhost";
$user="username";
$pwd="password";
$db="registration";
//Connecttodatabase.
try{
$conn=newPDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db",$user,$pwd);
$conn>setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE,PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
}
catch(Exception$e){
die(var_dump($e));
}

Note:
Again, you will need to update the values for $user and $pwd with your local MySQL user name and password.

7. Following the database connection code, add code for inserting registration information into the database.
if(!empty($_POST)){

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try{
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$date=date("Ymd");
//Insertdata
$sql_insert="INSERTINTOregistration_tbl(name,email,date)
VALUES(?,?,?)";
$stmt=$conn>prepare($sql_insert);
$stmt>bindValue(1,$name);
$stmt>bindValue(2,$email);
$stmt>bindValue(3,$date);
$stmt>execute();
}
catch(Exception$e){
die(var_dump($e));
}
echo"<h3>Your'reregistered!</h3>";
}

8. Finally, following the code above, add code for retrieving data from the database.
$sql_select="SELECT*FROMregistration_tbl";
$stmt=$conn>query($sql_select);
$registrants=$stmt>fetchAll();
if(count($registrants)>0){
echo"<h2>Peoplewhoareregistered:</h2>";
echo"<table>";
echo"<tr><th>Name</th>";
echo"<th>Email</th>";
echo"<th>Date</th></tr>";
foreach($registrantsas$registrant){
echo"<tr><td>".$registrant['name']."</td>";
echo"<td>".$registrant['email']."</td>";
echo"<td>".$registrant['date']."</td></tr>";
}
echo"</table>";
}else{
echo"<h3>Nooneiscurrentlyregistered.</h3>";
}

You can now browse to http://localhost/registration/index.php http://localhost/tasklist/index.php to test the app.

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Get MySQL and FTP connection information

To connect to the MySQL database that is running in Web Apps, your will need the connection information. To get MySQL connection information, follow these
steps:
1. From the app service web app blade click on the resource group link:

2. From your resource group, click the database:

3. From the database summary, select Settings > Properties.

4. Make note of the values for Database , Host , UserId , and Password .

5. From your web app, click the Download publish profile link at the bottom right corner of the page:

6. Open the .publishsettings file in an XML editor.

7. Find the <publishProfile> element with publishMethod="FTP" that looks similar to this:

<publishProfilepublishMethod="FTP"publishUrl="ftp://[mysite].azurewebsites.net/site/wwwroot"ftpPassiveMode="True"userName="[username
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...
</publishProfile>

Make note of the publishUrl , userName , and userPWD attributes.

Publish your app

After you have tested your app locally, you can publish it to your web app using FTP. However, you first need to update the database connection information in
the application. Using the database connection information you obtained earlier in the Get MySQL and FTP connection information section, update the
following information in both the createdatabase.php and index.php files with the appropriate values:
//DBconnectioninfo

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$host="valueofDataSource";
$user="valueofUserId";
$pwd="valueofPassword";
$db="valueofDatabase";

Now you are ready to publish your app using FTP.

1. Open your FTP client of choice.
2. Enter the host name portion from the publishUrl attribute you noted above into your FTP client.
3. Enter the userName and userPWD attributes you noted above unchanged into your FTP client.
4. Establish a connection.
After you have connected you will be able to upload and download files as needed. Be sure that you are uploading files to the root directory, which is
/site/wwwroot .
After uploading both index.php and createtable.php , browse to http://[site name].azurewebsites.net/createtable.php to create the MySQL table for the
application, then browse to http://[site name].azurewebsites.net/index.php to begin using the application.

Next steps
For more information, see the PHP Developer Center /develop/php/.