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ChimP
25-07-08, 03:55 AM
Hello.

I think I'll be the first to post here, with a simple tutorial to make a PHP-MySQL-based website.

So here's our config file, called "config.php":


<?php

$sql_host = "localhost";
$sql_user = "root";
$sql_pass = "P@ssw0rd";
$sql_db = "test";

?>
Then we'll call it in index.php:


<?php

include_once("config.php");

?>
Now we have a config file, and included it into our main file.
The next thing we're going to do, is to connect to MySQL. I know there's no tables to use yet, but that will come. ^^

Your code should look like this now:


<?php

include_once("config.php");

mysql_connect($sql_host, $sql_user, $sql_pass) or die("Could not connect to MySQL!");
mysql_select_db($sql_db) or die("Could not select database!");

?>
If you haven't got any error messages, we're able to continue.
Now we'll create our tables, and add some example data.

Execute this code to MySQL:


CREATE TABLE `content` (
`id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`text` text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
);
INSERT INTO content VALUES (1, 'Test 1', 'This is some example text of the first test-page.');
INSERT INTO content VALUES (2, 'Test 2', 'This is some example text of the second test-page.');
Now we'll start to grab our data.



<?php
// Get our config vars.
include_once("config.php");

// Connect to MySQL and select the database to use.
mysql_connect($sql_host, $sql_user, $sql_pass) or die("Could not connect to MySQL!");
mysql_select_db($sql_db) or die("Could not select database!");

// Make sure the id we get is valid, so we don't get some invalid queries
if(isset($_GET['id']) && !empty($_GET['id']) && $_GET['id'] > 0) {
$id = intval( (int) $_GET['id'] );
} else {
// Else just use id 1
$id = 1;
}

// Select the column, and escape the id for more security
$sql = "SELECT * FROM content WHERE id = '" . mysql_escape_string($id) . "'";

// Query the database
$q = mysql_query($sql);

?>
Now we got the data inside $q. The thing we need to do now, is to get the data out to our website. And that's what I'm going to do now.



<?php
// Get our config vars.
include_once("config.php");

// Connect to MySQL and select the database to use.
mysql_connect($sql_host, $sql_user, $sql_pass) or die("Could not connect to MySQL!");
mysql_select_db($sql_db) or die("Could not select database!");

// Make sure the id we get is valid, so we don't get some invalid queries
if(isset($_GET['id']) && !empty($_GET['id']) && $_GET['id'] > 0) {
$id = intval( (int) $_GET['id'] );
} else {
// Else just use id 1
$id = 1;
}

// Select the column, and escape the id for more security
$sql = "SELECT title, text FROM content WHERE id = '" . mysql_escape_string($id) . "'";

// Query the database
$q = mysql_query($sql);

// Check for a valid page id
if(mysql_num_rows($q) != 1) {
$title = "404 - Not found";
$text = "The requested page could not be found.";
} else {
// Store the data into $title and $text
list($title, $text) = mysql_fetch_array($q);
}

// Free memory from the query
mysql_free_result($q);

// Close connection to MySQL
mysql_close();

?>
And here we go! Now we got the data from MySQL, freed the memory, and closed the connection.
Now we just need to output it. :)

Here's the data inside some basic HTML:


<html>
<head>
<title>My First PHP-MySQL-Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<table width="600">
<tr>
<td><h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $text; ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
And here it is, all put together:


<?php
// Get our config vars.
include_once("config.php");

// Connect to MySQL and select the database to use.
mysql_connect($sql_host, $sql_user, $sql_pass) or die("Could not connect to MySQL!");
mysql_select_db($sql_db) or die("Could not select database!");

// Make sure the id we get is valid, so we don't get some invalid queries
if(isset($_GET['id']) && !empty($_GET['id']) && $_GET['id'] > 0) {
$id = intval( (int) $_GET['id'] );
} else {
// Else just use id 1
$id = 1;
}

// Select the column, and escape the id for more security
$sql = "SELECT title, text FROM content WHERE id = '" . mysql_escape_string($id) . "'";

// Query the database
$q = mysql_query($sql);

// Check for a valid page id
if(mysql_num_rows($q) != 1) {
$title = "404 - Not found";
$text = "The requested page could not be found.";
} else {
// Store the data into $title and $text
list($title, $text) = mysql_fetch_array($q);
}

// Free memory from the query
mysql_free_result($q);

// Close connection to MySQL
mysql_close();

?>

<html>
<head>
<title>My First PHP-MySQL-Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<table width="600">
<tr>
<td><h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $text; ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Done! You now have a very simple PHP-MySQL-Website. :)

You add more pages through MySQL, as I did earlier in this tutorial.

You change page through the URL's query-string, e.g "index.php?id=2", "index.php?id=7", "index.php?id=727", and so on.

Please leave comments/suggestions, then I might add more to this soon.

-ChimP

LumZor
25-07-08, 08:12 AM
Tables? Lol chimp... but yea "simple"

Nice work +rep from meh man!

Btw I am into creating Web 2.0 Designs now validated,...

Chmun
25-07-08, 10:15 AM
How is this supposed to help people... People who dont know will say "WTF is this"

ChimP
27-07-08, 02:20 PM
Tables? Lol chimp... but yea "simple"

Nice work +rep from meh man!

Btw I am into creating Web 2.0 Designs now validated,...
I know I'm using tables, which I don't like.

Just did it this time, so I don't have to learn people a lot of CSS too. ^^

How is this supposed to help people... People who dont know will say "WTF is this"
I did add comments, and I did add text to explain what I'm doing.
And as the title says, it's supposed to help people to start making a PHP-MySQL-based website.

StickyIcky
02-08-08, 08:12 PM
+rep for the noob Chimp ;p

Chmun
17-08-08, 10:28 PM
Lol, ChimP is the Professional
Havent seen any 1 else better than him in pHP :S

ChimP
27-08-08, 01:39 PM
+rep for the noob Chimp ;p
Should I give a release of a template-based controller system?

I simply made this tutorial to help those who don't know PHP very well, so they got a chance to get started with the basics about PHP+MySQL.

Currently I'm too busy to make more tutorials.
But when I got time for it, I might release my controller system with a guide how to use it and some examples.
But that's for the pretty experienced users, since it's using multiple classes and templates. ^^