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PHP Tutorials - Creating a Database

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How To Create a Database?

A database in a MySQL server is a logical container used to group tables and other data objects together as a unit. If you are a the administrator of the server, you can create and delete databases using the CREATE/DROP DATABASE statements. The following PHP script shows you how to create and drop an database called "fyi":

<?php
  $con = mysql_connect('localhost');
  $sql = 'CREATE DATABASE fyi';
  if (mysql_query($sql, $con)) {
    print("Database fyi created.\n");
  } else {
    print("Database creation failed.\n");
  }

  $sql = 'DROP DATABASE fyi';
  if (mysql_query($sql, $con)) {
    print("Database fyi dropped.\n");
  } else {
    print("Database drop failed.\n");
  }
  mysql_close($con); 
?>

If you run this script, you will get something like this:

Database fyi created.
Database fyi dropped.

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1. How To Install MySQL Server?
2. How To Use MySQL Command Line Interface?
3. What Do You Need to Connect PHP to MySQL?
4. How To Connect to MySQL from a PHP Script?
5. How To Create a Database?
6. How To Select an Exiting Database?
7. How To Run a SQL Statement?
8. How To Create a Table?
9. How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement?
10. How To Insert Data into a Table?
11. How To Insert Rows Based on SELECT Statements?
12. What Is a Result Set Object?
13. How To Query Tables and Loop through the Returning Rows?
14. How To Update Existing Rows in a Table?
15. How To Delete Existing Rows in a Table?
16. How To Quote Text Values in SQL Statements?
17. How To Quote Date and Time Values in SQL Statements?
18. How To Perform Key Word Search in Tables?
19. How To Query Multiple Tables Jointly?
20. How To Set the ID Column as Auto-Incremented?
21. How To Get the Last ID Assigned by MySQL?