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.

It’s all basically there on the CD, set up and ready. This includes XAMPP for Linux: a preconfigured Apache distribution that includes MySQL, PHP and Perl; all the example source code, and a ...

Dynamic PHP pages give you the option to choose a MySQL table dynamically from which to query. You must ensure that the table exists before running a query on the table.