What is PHP? PHP (Hypertext
Preprocessor) is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language that was
developed in C and is designed especially for working with relational database
systems.
How do I set
up a PHP Program? A PHP program is
embedded directly in the HTML document. It must have a .php4 extension
in order for the server to look for PHP code in the document. Here is how
you embed the PHP:
<?
insert PHP code here
?>
To merely display the
information in your database without the use of a form to call a php script
you simply create your HTML document as you would any other web page but
instead of the extension of .htm or .html you need to name the file with
the extension .php4. Then within the document itself the section that you'd
like to be the PHP code, you begin it with .
For instance:
These are the products
I sell:
<TABLE BORDER="0">
<? mysql_connect(localhost, username, password); $result = mysql(mydatabase,
"select * from products"); $num = mysql_numrows($result); $i = 0; while($i
< $num) { echo "<TR>n"; echo "<TD>n"; echo mysql_result($result,$i,"prodid");
echo "</TD>n<TD>"; echo mysql_result($result,$i,"name"); echo "</TD>n<TD>";
echo mysql_result($result,$i,"price"); echo "</TD>n"; echo "</TR>n";
$i++;} ?> </TABLE>
For detailed information
regarding PHP, you can go to their online manual: http://www.php.net/manual
