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PHP MySQL Create Table

This document discusses how to create a MySQL table using PHP. It provides the SQL statement to create a table with columns for ID, first name, last name, email, and registration date. It also shows examples of creating the table in PHP using MySQLi.

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PHP MySQL Create Table

This document discusses how to create a MySQL table using PHP. It provides the SQL statement to create a table with columns for ID, first name, last name, email, and registration date. It also shows examples of creating the table in PHP using MySQLi.

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PHP 

MySQL Create Table


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A database table has its own unique name and consists of columns and
rows.

Create a MySQL Table Using MySQLi and


PDO
The CREATE TABLE statement is used to create a table in MySQL.

We will create a table named "MyGuests", with five columns: "id",


"firstname", "lastname", "email" and "reg_date":

CREATE TABLE MyGuests (


id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(50),
reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)

Notes on the table above:

The data type specifies what type of data the column can hold. For a
complete reference of all the available data types, go to our Data Types
reference.

After the data type, you can specify other optional attributes for each
column:

 NOT NULL - Each row must contain a value for that column, null values
are not allowed
 DEFAULT value - Set a default value that is added when no other value
is passed
 UNSIGNED - Used for number types, limits the stored data to positive
numbers and zero
 AUTO INCREMENT - MySQL automatically increases the value of the
field by 1 each time a new record is added
 PRIMARY KEY - Used to uniquely identify the rows in a table. The
column with PRIMARY KEY setting is often an ID number, and is often
used with AUTO_INCREMENT

Each table should have a primary key column (in this case: the "id" column).
Its value must be unique for each record in the table.

The following examples shows how to create the table in PHP:

Example (MySQLi Object-oriented)


<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
  die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// sql to create table


$sql = "CREATE TABLE MyGuests (
id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(50),
reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {


  echo "Table MyGuests created successfully";
} else {
  echo "Error creating table: " . $conn->error;
}

$conn->close();
?>

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