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