Introduction to

MySQL & PHP

PRESENTED BY,
M.PRAVIN RAJ
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History of SQL
1974 - First version of SQL developed by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond
Boyce at IBM (SEQUEL). Used to manipulate and retrieve data in their
database.
1986 - American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standardizes SQL-86.
1999 SQL3 supports new features like procedural & control-of-flow
statements, triggers, and regular expressions.
..
2008 SQL2008 - still modifying the language to date.
Popular SQL suppliers today
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle 11g, PostgreSQLSQL
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Basic SQL Syntax
Data Definition Language (DDL)
CREATE TABLE / DATABASE / VIEW / etc.....
ALTER ...
DROP ...
Data Manipulation Language (DML)
SELECT ... FROM / INTO WHERE ...
INSERT INTO ... VALUES ...
UPDATE SET WHERE ...
DELETE FROM WHERE ...
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Intro to MySQL
Released 23 May 1995.
11+ Million web servers using MySQL
Similar, but not exactly same syntax as IBM DB2, Oracle 11g, etc...
Open-source & free to download, under the GNU General Public
License.
Coded in C / C++, Yacc parser, and custom lexical analyzer.
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MySQL Tutorial (1 of 2)
Following from MySQL 5.1 Manual (3.3 Creating and using a database)
For Command Prompt usage, follow these steps to use a database.
Enter password: XXXXX
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.1.31-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> SHOW DATABASES;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql |
| test |
+--------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> USE TEST;
Database changed
You can now perform DML & DDL operations!
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MySQL Tutorial (2 of 2)
mysql> CREATE TABLE myTest (time DATE, note VARCHAR(10), id INT);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> DESCRIBE myTest;
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| time | date | YES | | NULL | |
| note | varchar(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| id | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
3 rows in set (0.05 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO myTest VALUES (NULL, "hello", 3);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM myTest;
+------+-------+------+
| time | note | id |
+------+-------+------+
| NULL | hello | 3 |
+------+-------+------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
mysql>
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Some MySQL + PHP Uses
Managing database from the web. Phymyadmin is a commonly used
remote database management system via a PHP interface.
User places buy order on your website, and info is stored in DB.
Progressively build a SQL Query string.
PHP can blend with anything else on an HTML webpage, and even
dynamically generate more web code.
Make and test your own website / program.
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PhpBB
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PhpMyAdmin
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MySQL + PHP
Need a web server that connects to a local or remote Database?
No problem!
Host most likely localhost.
To perform SQL commands, try this php function...
$sql = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM myTable);
Just like with Java and its JDBC.
There is a way to iterate through the resulting bag.
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Form Post Ex. (1 of 2)
Test.php is purely HTML.
Form's POST action sends the object names to PHP file.
PHP file extracts them with array $_POST[].
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Form Post Ex. (2 of 2)
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MySQL Functions
NOT NULL : The NOT NULL constraint enforces a
column to NOT accept NULL values.

UNIQUE Constraint : identifies each record in a
database table.

PRIMARY KEY Constraint : identifies each
record in a database table.


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MySQL Functions
FOREIGN KEY Constraint : A FOREIGN KEY in one table points
to a PRIMARY KEY in another table.

NOW() Function: returns the current system date and time.

FORMAT() Function : used to format how a field is to be displayed.
Ex:
SELECT ProductName, Price, FORMAT(Now(),'YYYY-MM-DD')
AS PerDate FROM Products;