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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

ICT461 Web Systems and Technology

Lecture 5c. PHP and MySQL

 Contents
• Localhost
• PhPMyAdmin/ MySQL Admin
• Introduction to PhP
• Using HTML forms in PhP
• Connecting to MySQL database
• Retrieving data from MySQL database
• Adding data to MySQL database
 Localhost
• A localhost is a Web server and associated database that
is set up directly on your computer or that may be on a
local network either within your home or business
environment.
• You have direct easy access to the machine upon which
the software is situated
• A remote host is one that you access via the internet it
may be owned by you or you may rent it from a dedicated
hosting company.
 Installation of XAMPP
• Go to
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.htm
l and download latest XAMPP and follow
instructions
• You can also get a copy from a friend once it is
downloaded
• You also need text editor eg geany and
download from https://www.geany.org/
Localhost directory
 Localhost
• You need to create a directory eg example
within htdocs and then save your html or php
file into that directory
• Then you can access those files by issuing the
following commands
• http://localhost/example
• Remote computers will be able to access these
files using the following commands
• http://domain/example
 PhPMyAdmin/ MySQL Admin
• You can access XAMPP from the web browser
by the following command
• http://localhost/xampp
• You can access phpmyadmin from the web
broswer by the following command
• http://localhost/phpmyadmin
• If you have setup the password, then you will
be requested to enter the user name and
password
 PhPMyAdmin/ MySQL Admin
• You can use phpmyadmin to do the following:
– Create database and tables easily using the GUI
– Query the database by sending SQL commands using the
GUI
– Create PHP code from SQL commands
– Import and export data from other data sources
– Administer MySQL database and grant privileges
– And much more
PhPMyAdmin/ MySQL Admin
 PhPMyAdmin/ MySQL Admin
• To create an sql dump file or create backup (table
structure and data) you select export from PhPMyAdmin
and select save as sql file
• To export to excel you can select excel csv (comma
delimited file)
• You can also use mysqldump command. Read more on this
command from the manual
• At command prompt you can issue the following
command
mysqldump databasename --user root –password =
rootpassword > filename.sql
 Introduction to PhP
• PHP is scripting language that can help you to retrieve
data from MySQL and print them on the web browser
• It uses HTML commands with web programming
functionality
• PHP scripts are saved with the file extension .php to
signify their type. Whenever your web server is asked to
send a file ending with .php, it first passes it to the PHP
interpreter, which executes any PHP code in the script
before returning a generated file to the end user.
• The basic unit of PHP code is called a statement, and ends
with a semicolon to signify it is a complete statement.
• You take your own time to learn PHP (Internet/Intranet
can help)
 Introduction to PhP
• Here how to create your first PHP code
• Create folder example in the htdocs
• Create a text file called hello.php and enter the
following text
<?php
echo "Hello, world!";
?>

• Go to your browser and enter the following URL

http://localhost/example/hello.php
 Using HTML forms in PhP
• You can use html input forms in the php

<form action="someform.php" method="post">

Enter Name:
<input type="text" name="Name" value=“Kunda" /><br />
Enter Password:
<input type="password" name="Password" /><br />
Age:
<input type="text" name="Age" /><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
 Connecting to MySQL database
• Connecting to database
$conn = new
mysqli($server,$username,$password,$database);
• mysqli() requires four parameters
• Server name, this is the URL of the MySQL server you
want to connect to eg localhost
• User name, this username in MySQL
• Password, this is password associated with the MySQL
user identified by user name
• Database, this is name of the database that you wish to
connect to
$conn = new
PDO("mysql:host=$server;database=$dbname","$username
","$password");
 Creating a Query
• Creating a query is very easy now that you are
connected and selected the database
$sql = "SELECT * FROM staff";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
 Retrieving data from MySQL
database
• There are many ways to extract data from the
$result variable, one way is treat them as an
associative array
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
foreach ($row as $col=>$val){
print “$col: $val <br>”;
} // end foreach
print “<br>”;
} // end while
 Formatting data
print "<table border = '1'>\n";
print "<tr>\n";
while ($field = mysqli_fetch_field($result)){
print " <th>$field->name</th>\n";
} // end while
print "</tr>\n\n";
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
print "<tr>\n";
foreach ($row as $col=>$val){
print “<td>$val</td>\n";
} // end foreach
print "</tr>\n\n";
}// end while
print “</table>”;
 Adding data to MySQL database
<form action = “firstform.php“ method = "post">
<fieldset>
<label>Enter Staff No.</label>
<input name = “staffno“ value = "" /> <br>
<label>Enter Staff Name</label>
<input name = “lname” value = "" /> <br>
<label>Enter Staff Salary</label>
<input name = “salary” value = "" /> <br>
<button type = "submit"> Submit </button> </fieldset>
</form>
 Adding data to MySQL database
// obtain the data from input variables
$staffno = $dbConn -> escape_string($_POST['staffno']);
$lname = $dbConn -> escape_string($_POST['lname']);
$salary = $dbConn -> escape_string($_POST['salary']);
// connect to mysql and select database
$dbConn = new
mysqli($hostname,$username,$password,$database);
 Adding data to MySQL database
$query = “INSERT INTO staff VALUES ('$staffno', '$lname',
'$salary' ";
$result = $conn->query($query);
if ($result){
print "<h1>data added successful</h1>\n";
} else {
print "<h2>there was a problem...</h2>$query\n";
} // end if
 Edit and delete records
• You can use the same concept of connecting to
database and then select a delete query to
delete a record from a table
• You can use the concept of add data to
database to retrieve data first and then edit it
in the form and send back to the database
 CRUD Example
• Download the zipped file and extract it into right folder
• Using phpMyAdmin create a table
CREATE TABLE `products` (
`id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`productname` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
`quantity` int(10) NOT NULL,
`price` double NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id` )
);
• Insert some data
INSERT INTO `products` (`id`, `productname`, `quantity`, `price`)
VALUES (1, 'Mangoes', 200, 450), (2, 'Apples', 10, 240);
• Using browser enter the following URL
http://localhost/ict461/phpcrud
 Lab Exercise
• Remember to apply the concept of CRUD in
your lab/ course work