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sameh salah
4,635 PointsHave a nice day , i wonder if you have video teach me how insert data in MySQL database ?
most courses in PHP is about retrieve data from database and i can't found video about inserting data in database , kindly help me
Thanks; Sameh
1 Answer
Robert Gouveia
Courses Plus Student 1,714 PointsThe reason for this is because it all depends if you are using PDO or Mysqli.
The sql query is the same but the way you import the data in php differs slightly.
PDO for instance is:
$query = $pdo->prepare("INSERT INTO databasetable (column1, column2, column3) VALUES (:column1, :column2, :column3)");
$query->execute(array(':column1' => $variable1, ':column2' => $variable2, ':column3' => $variable3));
And Mysqli looks like this:
$query = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO databasetable (column1, column2, column3) VALUES (?, ?, ?)");
$query->bind_param("sss", $variable1, $variable2, $variable3);
Notice they are not a million miles apart from they are different.
For instance the Mysqli in the bind_param is also asking what type each variable is (i,d,sb). For my query I just kept it as s which means string.
I personally have not gone through these courses as they are not what I need to learn but to be honest everything you will ever need you can find on the php website:
I am pretty sure I have seen a few courses about PDO on here, maybe you need to look at them, but to be honest if you do not know how to insert into the database, it means you really need to learn the basics of PHP first.
Hope this helps :)