PHP/MySQL Tutorial

Introduction to Database
Goal of this tutorial

 Not to teach everything about PHP, but

provide the basic knowledge
 Explain code of examples
 Provide some useful references
What is PHP?

 PHP == ‘Hypertext Preprocessor’

 Open-source, server-side scripting language
 Used to generate dynamic web-pages
 PHP scripts reside between reserved PHP tags
 This allows the programmer to embed PHP
scripts within HTML pages
What is PHP (cont’d)
 Interpreted language, scripts are parsed at run-
time rather than compiled beforehand
 Executed on the server-side
 Source-code not visible by client
 ‘View Source’ in browsers does not display the PHP
code
 Various built-in functions allow for fast
development
 Compatible with many popular databases
What does PHP code look like?
 Structurally similar to C/C++
 Supports procedural and object-oriented
paradigm (to some degree)
 All PHP statements end with a semi-colon
 Each PHP script must be enclosed in the
reserved PHP tag

<?php
…
?>
Variables in PHP

 PHP variables must begin with a “$” sign

 Case-sensitive ($Foo != $foo != $fOo)
 Global and locally-scoped variables
 Global variables can be used anywhere
 Local variables restricted to a function or class
 Certain variable names reserved by PHP
 Form variables ($_POST, $_GET)
 Server variables ($_SERVER)
 Etc.
Variable usage
<?php
$foo = 25; // Numerical variable
$bar = “Hello”; // String variable

$foo = ($foo * 7); // Multiplies foo by 7

$bar = ($bar * 7); // Invalid expression
?>
Variables in PHP
<?php
$name = "John Doe";
$age = 25;
$hourlyRate = 10.50;
$hours = 40;

echo $name . " is " . $age . " years old.\n";

echo $name . " makes $" . $hourlyRate . " an hour. \n";
echo $name . " worked " . $hours . " hours this week. \n";

?>
Echo
 The PHP command ‘echo’ is used to
output the parameters passed to it
 The typical usage for this is to send data to the
client’s web-browser
 Syntax
 void echo (string arg1 [, string argn...])
 In practice, arguments are not passed in
parentheses since echo is a language
construct rather than an actual function
Echo example
<?php
$foo = 25; // Numerical variable
$bar = "Hello"; // String variable

$foo = 25; // Numerical variable

$bar = “Hello”; // String variable
echo $bar; // Outputs Hello
echo "\n"; echo $foo,$bar; // Outputs 25Hello
echo "\n"; echo "5x5=",$foo; // Outputs 5x5=25
echo "\n"; echo "5x5=$foo"; // Outputs 5x5=25
echo "\n"; echo '5x5=$foo'; // Outputs 5x5=$foo
?>

 Notice how echo ‘5x5=$foo’ outputs $foo rather than replacing it with 25
 Strings in single quotes (‘ ‘) are not interpreted or evaluated by PHP
 This is true for both variables and character escape-sequences (such as
“\n” or “\\”)
Arithmetic Operations
<?php
$a=15;
$b=30;
$total=$a+$b;
Print $total;
Print “<p><h1>$total</h1>”;
// total is 45
?>

 $a - $b // subtraction
 $a * $b // multiplication
 $a / $b // division
 $a += 5 // $a = $a+5 Also works for *= and /=
Concatenation
<?php
$string1= "Hello";
$string2="PHP";
$string3=$string1 . " " . $string2;
Print $string3;
?>

Hello PHP

Test it online Jdoodle-PHP

https://www.jdoodle.com/php-online-editor
Or
Test in on your WAMP Server
Question
<?php
$string1= "Hello";
$string2="PHP";
$string3=$string1 . " " . $string2. ' $string1';
Print $string3;
?>
What is the expected output for Print $string3; ?
 Comments in PHP

 Standard C, C++, and shell comment

symbols

// C++ and Java-style comment

# Shell-style comments

/* C-style comments
These can span multiple lines */
Escaping the Character

 If the string has a set of double quotation

marks that must remain visible, use the \
[backslash] before the quotation marks to
ignore and display them.
<?php
$heading=“\”Computer Science\””;
Print $heading;
?>

“Computer Science”
 PHP Control Structures
 Control Structures: Are the structures within a language that
allow us to control the flow of execution through a program or
script.
 Grouped into conditional (branching) structures (e.g. if/else) and
repetition structures (e.g. while loops).
 Example if/else if/else statement:

if ($foo == 0) {
echo ‘The variable foo is equal to 0’;
}
else if (($foo > 0) && ($foo <= 5)) {
echo ‘The variable foo is between 1 and 5’;
}
else {
echo ‘The variable foo is equal to ‘.$foo;
}
If ... Else...

 If (condition) <?php
If($user==“John”)
{ {
Print “Hello John.”;
Statements; }
Else
} {
Print “You are not John.”;
Else }
?>
{
Statement;
} No THEN in PHP
While Loops <?php
$count=0;
While($count<3)
{
Print "hello PHP. ";
 While (condition) $count += 1;
// $count = $count + 1;
{ // or
// $count++;
Statements; }

} print $count;
?>

hello PHP. hello PHP. hello PHP. 3

Date Display
$datedisplay=date(“yyyy/m/d”);
2009/4/1 Print $datedisplay;
# If the date is April 1st, 2009
# It would display as 2009/4/1

$datedisplay=date(“l, F m, Y”);
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Print $datedisplay;
# If the date is April 1st, 2009
# Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Month, Day & Date Format Symbols

M Jan
F January
m 01
n 1

Day of Month d 01
Day of Month J 1
Day of Week l Monday
Day of Week D Mon
 Functions
 Functions MUST be defined before then can be
called
 Function headers are of the format
function functionName($arg_1, $arg_2, …, $arg_n)
 Note that no return type is specified
 Unlike variables, function names are not case
sensitive (foo(…) == Foo(…) == FoO(…))
Functions example

<?php
// This is a function
function foo($arg_1, $arg_2)
{
$arg_2 = $arg_1 * $arg_2;
return $arg_2;
}

$result_1 = foo(12, 3); // Store the function

echo $result_1; // Outputs 36
echo foo(12, 3); // Outputs 36
?>
Include Files
Include “opendb.php”;
Include “closedb.php”;
This inserts files; the code in files will be inserted into current code.
This will provide useful and protective means once you connect to a
database, as well as for other repeated functions.

Include (“footer.php”);
The file footer.php might look like:

<hr SIZE=11 NOSHADE WIDTH=“100%”>

<i>Copyright © 2008-2010 KSU </i></font><br>
<i>ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</i></font><br>
<i>URL: http://www.kent.edu</i></font><br>
 PHP - Forms
•Access to the HTTP POST and GET data is simple in PHP
•The global variables $_POST[] and $_GET[] contain the
request data
<?php
if ($_POST["submit"])
echo "<h2>You clicked Submit!</h2>";
else if ($_POST["cancel"])
echo "<h2>You clicked Cancel!</h2>";
?>
<form action="form.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel">
</form>

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~nruan/form.php
 WHY PHP – Sessions ?
Whenever you want to create a website that allows you to store and display
information about a user, determine which user groups a person belongs to,
utilize permissions on your website or you just want to do something cool on
your site, PHP's Sessions are vital to each of these features.

Cookies are about 30% unreliable right now and it's getting worse every day.
More and more web browsers are starting to come with security and privacy
settings and people browsing the net these days are starting to frown upon
Cookies because they store information on their local computer that they do
not want stored there.

PHP has a great set of functions that can achieve the same results of Cookies
and more without storing information on the user's computer. PHP Sessions
store the information on the web server in a location that you chose in
special files. These files are connected to the user's web browser via the
server and a special ID called a "Session ID". This is nearly 99% flawless in
operation and it is virtually invisible to the user.
 PHP - Sessions
•Sessions store their identifier in a cookie in the client’s browser
•Every page that uses session data must be proceeded by the
session_start() function
•Session variables are then set and retrieved by accessing the global
$_SESSION[]

•Save it as session.php
<?php
session_start();
if (!$_SESSION["count"])
$_SESSION["count"] = 0;
if ($_GET["count"] == "yes")
$_SESSION["count"] = $_SESSION["count"] + 1;
echo "<h1>".$_SESSION["count"]."</h1>";
?>
<a href="session.php?count=yes">Click here to count</a>

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~nruan/session.php
Avoid Error PHP - Sessions
PHP Example: <?php
echo "Look at this nasty error below:<br />";
session_start();
?>
Error!

Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by

(output started at session_header_error/session_error.php:2)
in session_header_error/session_error.php on line 3
Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already
sent (output started at
session_header_error/session_error.php:2) in
session_header_error/session_error.php on line 3

PHP Example: <?php

session_start();
echo "Look at this nasty error below:";
?>
Correct
 Destroy PHP - Sessions
Destroying a Session
why it is necessary to destroy a session when the session will get
destroyed when the user closes their browser. Well, imagine that you had
a session registered called "access_granted" and you were using that to
determine if the user was logged into your site based upon a username
and password. Anytime you have a login feature, to make the users feel
better, you should have a logout feature as well. That's where this cool
function called session_destroy() comes in handy. session_destroy() will
completely demolish your session (no, the computer won't blow up or self
destruct) but it just deletes the session files and clears any trace of that
session.
NOTE: If you are using the $_SESSION superglobal array, you must clear
the array values first, then run session_destroy.
Here's how we use session_destroy():
 Destroy PHP - Sessions
<?php
// start the session
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix
$_SESSION = array();
session_destroy();
echo "<strong>Step 5 - Destroy This Session </strong><br />";
if($_SESSION['name']){
echo "The session is still active";
} else {
echo "Ok, the session is no longer active! <br />";
echo "<a href=\"page1.php\"><< Go Back Step 1</a>";
}
?>

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~nruan/session_destroy.php
 PHP Overview
 Easy learning
 Syntax Perl- and C-like syntax. Relatively
easy to learn.
 Large function library
 Embedded directly into HTML
 Interpreted, no need to compile
 Open Source server-side scripting language
designed specifically for the web.
 PHP Overview (cont.)
 Conceived in 1994, now used on +10 million
web sites.
 Outputs not only HTML but can output XML,
images (JPG & PNG), PDF files and even Flash
movies all generated on the fly. Can write these
files to the file system.
 Supports a wide-range of databases (20+ODBC).
 PHP also has support for talking to other
services using protocols such as LDAP, IMAP,
SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP.
 First PHP script
 Save as sample.php:
<!– sample.php -->
<html><body>
<strong>Hello World!</strong><br />
<?php
echo "<h2>Hello, World</h2>"; ?>
<?php
$myvar = "Hello World";
echo $myvar;
?>
</body></html>
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/php_webview_online.php
Example – show data in the tables

 Function: list all tables in your database.

Users can select one of tables, and show all
contents in this table.

 second.php
 showtable.php

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~nruan/second.php
second.php
<html><head><title>MySQL Table Viewer</title></head><body>
<?php
// change the value of $dbuser and $dbpass to your username and password
$dbhost = 'hercules.cs.kent.edu:3306';
$dbuser = 'nruan';
$dbpass = ‘*****************’;
$dbname = $dbuser;
$table = 'account';
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if (!$conn) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
if (!mysql_select_db($dbname))
die("Can't select database");
second.php (cont.)
$result = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES");
if (!$result) {
die("Query to show fields from table failed");
}
$num_row = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "<h1>Choose one table:<h1>";
echo "<form action=\"showtable.php\" method=\"POST\">";
echo "<select name=\"table\" size=\"1\" Font size=\"+2\">";
for($i=0; $i<$num_row; $i++) {
$tablename=mysql_fetch_row($result);
echo "<option value=\"{$tablename[0]}\" >{$tablename[0]}</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
echo "<div><input type=\"submit\" value=\"submit\"></div>";
echo "</form>";

mysql_free_result($result);
mysql_close($conn);
?>
</body></html>
showtable.php
<html><head>
<title>MySQL Table Viewer</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$dbhost = 'hercules.cs.kent.edu:3306';
$dbuser = 'nruan';
$dbpass = ‘**********’;
$dbname = 'nruan';
$table = $_POST[“table”];
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if (!$conn)
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
if (!mysql_select_db($dbname))
die("Can't select database");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$table}");
if (!$result) die("Query to show fields from table failed!" . mysql_error());
 showtable.php (cont.)
$fields_num = mysql_num_fields($result);
echo "<h1>Table: {$table}</h1>";
echo "<table border='1'><tr>";
// printing table headers
for($i=0; $i<$fields_num; $i++) {
$field = mysql_fetch_field($result);
echo "<td><b>{$field->name}</b></td>";
}
echo "</tr>\n";
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
echo "<tr>";
// $row is array... foreach( .. ) puts every element
// of $row to $cell variable
foreach($row as $cell)
echo "<td>$cell</td>";
echo "</tr>\n";
}
mysql_free_result($result);
mysql_close($conn);
?>
</body></html>
Functions Covered
 mysql_connect() mysql_select_db()
 include()
 mysql_query() mysql_num_rows()
 mysql_fetch_array() mysql_close()
History of PHP
 PHP began in 1995 when Rasmus Lerdorf developed a
Perl/CGI script toolset he called the Personal Home
Page or PHP
 PHP 2 released 1997 (PHP now stands for Hypertex
Processor). Lerdorf developed it further, using C instead
 PHP3 released in 1998 (50,000 users)
 PHP4 released in 2000 (3.6 million domains).
Considered debut of functional language and including
Perl parsing, with other major features
 PHP5.0.0 released July 13, 2004 (113 libraries>1,000
functions with extensive object-oriented programming)
 PHP5.0.5 released Sept. 6, 2005 for maintenance and
bug fixes
Recommended Texts for Learning PHP

 Larry Ullman’s books from the Visual Quickpro

series
 PHP & MySQL for Dummies
 Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to
Professional by W. Jason Gilmore
 (This is more advanced and dense than the others,
but great to read once you’ve finished the easier
books. One of the best definition/description of
object oriented programming I’ve read)
Create your own homepage
 Login loki.cs.kent.edu
 Create directory “public_html” in your home
directory
 Create two php files (second.php and
showtable.php) we have discussed
 Visit your homepage:
http://www.cs.kent.edu/~[username]/second.php

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~nruan/second.php