HELP ABOUT PHP

toledojimenez

I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BEGIN A APLICATION USING PHP AND MYSQL, I\'M BEGINNER, I NEED TO LEARN, I WOULD LIKE LEARN PHP.

COULD YOU HELP ME, PLEASE...

THANKS.

knickerlas

Help yourself.

You've found this site for a start, what more do you want?

Nick

PS. Do something about the all caps posting huh?

majik-sheff

There once was a man named Jose,
Who left his caps lock on all day.
He asked for advice
But was shunned for his vice
He'll never learn PHP this way!

Hmmm I seem to be getting further off topic... There are SEVERAL great books out there for beginners in PHP and MySQL. Just visit your local bookstore or Amazon.com.

Anon

Just for starting these are some base functions of Mysql in php

to put something in a table
.....
//connection
$link = mysql_connect("YOURDBSERVER", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD")
or die ("Could not connect");

mysql_select_db ("DBNAME")
or die ("Could not select database");

//defining query
$query="INSERT INTO table (id, name) VALUES ('1', 'ciccio')";

$result = mysql_query ($query)
    or die ("Query failed");

//closing db
mysql_close($link);

or for retrieving some data from a table

.....
$link = mysql_connect("YOURDBSERVER", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD")
or die ("Could not connect");

mysql_select_db ("DBNAME")
    or die ("Could not select database");

$query = "SELECT * FROM Table";
$result = mysql_query ($query)
    or die ("Query failed");

//to print the result
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) {

$rownum++;

echo $row[0];

......

mysql_close($link);

........

hope it will help, anyway check tha manual, it's surely clearer than me 😉

Anon

Yes, please do something about the caps lock.

Here's a tutorial. Once you get things going, use the manuals. They are actually quite useful.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a.html

knickerlas

hehe Love the poem!

Anon

best advice I can give you is to purchase a book from chapters, and work through the examples, or simply search using the engines for online tutorials.

Working with the code is the best way you will learn, and you need to start with the basics to grasp everything.

hope this helps.