DEV Community

Falah Al Fitri
Falah Al Fitri

Posted on • Edited on

PHP and MySQL 30: query select


Happy Coding


Home Previous

In this post, we will learn about how to use query SELECT in PHP for retrieve data from database MySQL, with 3 ways:

  1. MySQLi procedural
  2. MySQLi object-oriented
  3. PDO

For known, how to connect to database, can be learned in here

Insert query is used for insert data or record into database

Syntax:

    SELECT column1, column2, column3 
    FROM table_name;
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

using wilcard (*) for select all column

    SELECT *
    FROM table_name;
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Example:

    $sql  = "SELECT id, firstname, lastname ";
    $sql .= "FROM users " ;
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode
    $sql  = "SELECT * ";
    $sql .= "FROM users " ;
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

And, for execute the query, we will use 3 ways:

1. MySQLi1 procedural

Back to Home

Execute query using mysqli::query2 and get a $result:

    $result = mysqli_query( $connection, $sql );
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Display data using mysqli_result::fetch_assoc3, alternative using mysqli_result::fetch_object4:

    echo "<pre>";

    echo "No \t";
    echo "ID \t";
    echo "Firstname \t\t";
    echo "Lastname \n";

    $no = 1; /* variabel $no */

    /* loop while */
    while ( $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result) )
    {

        echo $no . "\t";
        echo $row['id'] . "\t";
        echo $row['firstname'] . "\t\t";
        echo $row['lastname'] . "\n";

        $no++; /* increment */

    }

    echo "</pre>";
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Close connection using mysqli::close5:

    mysqli_close($connection);
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Source Code:


2. MySQLi1 object-oriented

Back to Home

Execute query using mysqli::query2 and get a $result:

    $result = $connection->query($sql);
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Display data using mysqli_result::fetch_object4:

    echo "<pre>";

    echo "No \t";
    echo "ID \t";
    echo "Firstname \t";
    echo "Lastname \n";

    $no = 1; /* variabel $no */

    /* loop while */
    while ( $row = $result->fetch_object() )
    {

        echo $no . "\t";
        echo $row->id . "\t";
        echo $row->firstname . "\t\t";
        echo $row->lastname . "\n";

        $no++; /* increment */

    }

    echo "</pre>";
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Close connection using mysqli::close5:

     $connection->close();
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Source Code:


3. PDO6

Back to Home

Execute query and get a $result:

    $result = $connection->query($sql);
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Display Data:

    echo "<pre>";

    echo "No \t";
    echo "ID \t";
    echo "Firstname \t";
    echo "Lastname \n";

    $no = 1; /* variabel $no */

    /* loop foreach */
    foreach ( $result as $row  )
    {

        echo $no . "\t";
        echo $row->id . "\t";
        echo $row->firstname . "\t\t";
        echo $row->lastname . "\n";

        $no++; /* increment */

    } 

    echo "</pre>";
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Close connection:

    $connection = null;
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Source Code:

Back to Home | Next#


Thank for reading :)


  1. php.net, "MySQL Improved Extension", accessed on date 21 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php 

  2. php.net, "mysqli::query", accessed on date 22 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.query.php 

  3. php.net, "mysqli_result::fetch_assoc", accessed on date 23 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-assoc.php 

  4. php.net, "mysqli_result::fetch_object", accessed on date 23 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-object.php 

  5. php.net, "mysqli::close", accessed on date 21 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.close.php 

  6. php.net, "PDO::__construct", accessed on date 21 december 2019 and from https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.construct.php  

Top comments (0)