Now you have an existing MySQL database, so you can write the PHP code to perform the preceding steps. Begin with the search form. The code for this plain HTML form is shown in Listing 11.1.

To illustrate, suppose for example that you have a database called DB1 set up for a forum with a table called "posts" that includes four columns: ID, username, subject and content.

Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...

To create an online database to display phone numbers, or any other stored data, you must move beyond basic HyperText Markup Language, referred to as HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS.