SQL with PDO
From SQLZoo
PHP, PDO and MySQL Hello world
This tutorial takes you through building a web page to show details from database tables.
You will need to have access to a machine with the LAMP stack - Napier students can use inf08104 or socweb8.napier.ac.uk
Exploring the world database with scott
- Connect to the database scott on inf08104
- Run and SQL SELECT statement using PDO
- Output each row in a while loop
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Connect to your own database
- Find out your password
- Download a database http://sqlzoo.net/world.sql
- Import your database into MySQL
- Change something about the world
- Update your php to look at your own copy of the world database
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Look at one movie from the movie database
- Download the movie database from http://sqlzoo.net/moviesm.sql
- Find the id of "Toy Story"
- Write a PHP query to look up that movie and show details
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Use a parameter in your movie query
- Change toystory.php so it takes a CGI variable
- Visit the page with the CGI variable set
- Make up an index page with links to the best movies ever
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Show more details of each movie
- Examine the tables movie, casting and actor
- Use a JOIN to include the director
- Write a second query to get the cast list
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