Insert Data into a Database from an HTML Form

Step 1: Creating the HTML Form Here's a simple HTML form that has three text <input> fields and a submit button.

Connecting to MySQL Database Server

In PHP you can easily do this using the mysqli_connect() function. All communication between PHP and the MySQL database server takes place through this connection. Here're the basic syntaxes for connecting to MySQL using MySQLi and PDO extensions:

PHP - post & get

Recall from the PHP Forms Lesson where we used an HTML form and sent it to a PHP web page for processing. In that lesson we opted to use the the post method for submitting, but we could have also chosen the get method. This lesson will review both transferring methods.

PHP - file unlink

Learn how to delete files using PHP File Delete

PHP - file read

Learn how to read files using PHP File read

PHP - file write - fwrite

Learn how to write data to a file using the php frwite function with PHP File Write.

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