I have managed to connect to database and I manage to insert using following code.
<?php
$username = 'root';
$password = '';
$db = 'demo';
$conn = new mysqli ('localhost',$username, $password, $db) or die("unable to connect");
$sql="insert into persons (first_name,last_name,email_address) values ('sara','smith','email@email.com')";
$query=mysqli_query($conn,$sql);
if($query)
echo 'data inserted';
?>
But the problem is that when I try to enter data using HTML form, it didn't work for me. I have tried to follow different tutorials and different answers here on stackoverflow. Can anyone please tell me the easiest way of inserting and getting data from MySQL using PHP ?
If there is any easy tutorial or blog from where i can learn and understand all this, I would love to watch or read.
I manage to do it in following way.
Create a file name index.php with following code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Add Record Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="insert.php" method="post">
<p>
<label for="firstName">First Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstName">
</p>
<p>
<label for="lastName">Last Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastName">
</p>
<p>
<label for="emailAddress">Email Address:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" id="emailAddress">
</p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Then create another file name as insert.php
<?php
/* Attempt MySQL server connection. Assuming you are running MySQL
server with default setting (user 'root' with no password) */
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "demo");
// Check connection
if($link === false){
die("ERROR: Could not connect. " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
// Escape user inputs for security
$first_name = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $_POST['firstname']);
$last_name = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $_POST['lastname']);
$email_address = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $_POST['email']);
// attempt insert query execution
$sql = "INSERT INTO persons (first_name, last_name, email_address) VALUES ('$first_name', '$last_name', '$email_address')";
if(mysqli_query($link, $sql)){
echo "Records added successfully.";
} else{
echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . mysqli_error($link);
}
// close connection
mysqli_close($link);
?>
//procedural style
$mysqli = mysqli_connect('host','username','password','database_name');
//Output any connection error
if ($mysqli->connect_error) {
die('Error : ('. $mysqli->connect_errno .') '. $mysqli->connect_error);
}
//inserting a record
$product_code = '"'.$mysqli->real_escape_string('P1234').'"';
$product_name = '"'.$mysqli->real_escape_string('42 inch TV').'"';
$product_price = '"'.$mysqli->real_escape_string('600').'"';
//MySqli Insert Query
$insert_row = $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO products (product_code, product_name, price) VALUES($product_code, $product_name, $product_price)");
if($insert_row){
print 'Success! ID of last inserted record is : ' .$mysqli->insert_id .'<br />';
}else{
die('Error : ('. $mysqli->errno .') '. $mysqli->error);
}
A quick and untested example of using an HTML form with the POST method to insert data entered by a user into the db.
<?php
$result = false;
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$username = 'root';
$password = '';
$db = 'demo';
if( $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST' ){
$conn = new mysqli ( $dbhost,$username, $password, $db );
if( $conn ){
$sql='insert into `persons` ( `first_name`,`last_name`,`email_address` ) values (?,?,?);';
$stmt=$conn->prepare( $sql );
$stmt->bind_param('sss', $_POST['firstname'], $_POST['lastname'], $_POST['email'] );
$result = $stmt->execute();
}
$conn->close();
}
?>
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple Form submission example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method='post'>
<input type='text' name='firstname' />
<input type='text' name='lastname' />
<input type='text' name='email' />
<input type='submit' value='Submit' />
<?php
echo $result ? '<div>The database was updated</div>' : '';
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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