Setting up a MySQL database from PHP

Yes ... training on a Sunday ;-) ... I've been setting up a MySQL database from a PHP script and testing it. A couple of bits of source to share.

1. The setup of the database:

<?php

mysql_connect("localhost","womble","wimbledon");

mysql_query("create database gerald");

mysql_select_db("gerald");

mysql_query("create table course(first text, second text)");

mysql_query('insert into course values("Upper","Lower")');

mysql_query('insert into course values("Smiff","Yones")');

?>

2. A page to test that it's there:

<?php

mysql_connect("localhost","womble","wimbledon");

mysql_select_db("gerald");

$rs = mysql_query("select * from course");

while ($rown = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {

  $html .= "$rown[first] ... $rown[second]<br>";

  }

?>

<html>

<body>

Here it is <br>

<?= $html ?>

</body>

</html>

(We had to set it up this way as there is only FTP access to the server ... learn more about these things on our PHP courses and MySQL courses
(written 2009-03-08)

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