Now you have an existing MySQL database, so you can write the PHP code to perform the preceding steps. Begin with the search form. The code for this plain HTML form is shown in Listing 11.1.

To illustrate, suppose for example that you have a database called DB1 set up for a forum with a table called "posts" that includes four columns: ID, username, subject and content.

The PHP extension for MySQL database is packaged with the PHP 5 download (see Resources). First, you need to activate the MySQL extension in the php.ini configuration file. Remove the ';' before this ...

Building data entry forms and reports for MySQL involves using HTML and a Web programming language such as PHP to create the front-end forms and reports, and using a database connection technology ...

The big news this morning is that open source database startup MySQL finally found a year’s worth of rumors that they were mulling over an initial public offering.Sun Microsystems has acquired ...