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PHP Tutorials - Running a SQL Statement

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How To Run a SQL Statement?

You can run any types of SQL statements through the mysql_query() function. It takes the SQL statement as a string and returns different types of data depending on the SQL statement type and execution status:

• Returning FALSE, if the execution failed.
• Returning a result set object, if the execution is successful on a SELECT statement or other statement returning multiple rows of data.
• Returning TRUE, if the execution is successful on other statements.

Here is a good example of running a SQL statement with the mysql_query() function:

<?php
  include "mysql_connection.php";

  $sql = 'SELECT sysdate() FROM dual';
  $rs = mysql_query($sql, $con);
  $row = mysql_fetch_array($rs);
  print("Database current time: ". $row[0] ."\n");

  mysql_close($con); 
?>

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

Database current time: 2006-02-26 21:34:57

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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?