MySQL database on PHP

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thematrix

MySQL database on PHP

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 8:54 pm

Posts: 65

Hello agents.

I'd been out of the computers world for some 10 years or something, and now I'm trying to improve a little catalog that I'm developing for my business. Anyway, I'd been reading about databases, html forms, arrays, php, etc... and now what im doing is try to put all that together. So, these are some examples for my Html and Php files.

<form method="POST" action="catalog.php">

        <input type="text" name="product">

        <input type="submit" value="Check">

</form>

<?php

extract($_POST);

echo $product;

?>

Now, I don't want it just to write the product, instead of that I would like it to retrieve the info for that product from my database, and here's where I am, asking you for help. Anyways thank you for your cooperation, and have a good day.

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super_bros

Re: MySQL database on PHP

Posted: February 4th, 2009, 9:09 pm

Posts: 48

im not an expert, but id been doing something like that lately. heres the code id been usin, hope this can help u

mysql_connect('host' , 'user' , 'password');

mysql_select_db('database');

as u can see is the same info that u use to access the mysql database. then u will need to retrieve the row of the database that matches ur 'product'. if ur field on the db is called 'prods' use this code

$dbTable=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM databaseName WHERE prods='$product'"); 

$rowWithProductInfo=mysql_fetch_array($dbTable);

then u can break the row array and use the info from the vars as u wish

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