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How to use the Singleton design pattern - TalkPHP. Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database in MySQL. MySQL 5.5 News: Read the MySQL 5.5 Update feature overview. The easiest way to backup your database would be to telnet to the your database server machine and use the mysqldump command to dump your whole database to a backup file. If you do not have telnet or shell access to your server, don't worry about it; I shall outline a method of doing so using the PHPMyAdmin web interface, which you can setup on any web server which executes PHP scripts.

Playing with mysqldump If you have either a shell or telnet access to your database server, you can backup the database using mysqldump. By default, the output of the command will dump the contents of the database in SQL statements to your console. This output can then be piped or redirected to any location you want. If you plan to backup your database, you can pipe the output to a sql file, which will contain the SQL statements to recreate and populate the database tables when you wish to restore your database. A Simple Database Backup: Creating a Database Driven Application With PHP. Creating a Sample MySQL Database using the NetBeans Interface. This lesson describes the last preliminary step in developing the Wish List application, that of creating a sample database with test data. To complete the steps in this tutorial, you will need a database in which to store data of wishers.

With the NetBeans IDE you can perform all these activities through the IDE interface. Before starting, see the tutorial requirements described in Creating a CRUD Application with PHP - Main page. The current document is a part of the Creating a CRUD Application in the NetBeans IDE for PHP tutorial. Registering a MySQL Server If you do not have a MySQL database server registered in the IDE, or you want general information about using MySQL with NetBeans IDE, see Connecting to a MySQL Database. Creating the Database User Before you create a database you need to create its User who will be granted the right to perform any operations on the database. An SQL Command window opens. Creating the Wishlist Database To create the database: Creating the Tables. Real-World OOP With PHP and MySQL. Numerous examples from robots to bicycles have been offered as “easy” explanations of what OOP is. I’ve opted to show you how OOP works with a real-life example, for a programmer.

By creating a MySQL CRUD class you can easily create, read, update and delete entries in any of your projects, regardless of how the database is designed. Setting up the skeleton of our class is fairly simple once we figure out exactly what we need. First we need to make sure that we can do our basic MySQL functions. In order to do this, we need the following functions: Select Insert Delete Update Connect Disconnect Those seem pretty basic, but I’m sure that as we go through, we’ll notice that a lot of them utilize some similar aspects, so we may have to create more classes. This function will be fairly basic, but creating it will require us to first create a few variables. This function will simply check our connection variable to see if it is set to true. The next section is the real magic of the code.

PHP MySQL Tutorial. PHP/MySQL Tutorial. Introduction For many people, the main reson for learning a scripting language like PHP is because of the interaction with databases it can offer. In this tutorial I will show you how to use PHP and the MySQL database to store information on the web and include it into your website.

Before you read this tutorial you should have at least a basic knowledge of how to use PHP. If you do not yet know PHP, I suggest that you read our PHP tutorial before continuing. Why Would I Want A Database? It is actually surprising how useful a database can be when used with a website. Banner Rotation. You only really need three things to run PHP scripts which access MySQL databases. PHP also needs to be installed on the server. Finally, you will also require MySQL. If you cannot install (or your web host won't allow) PHP and MySQL you can still use another web host.

Testing For PHP and MySQL There is a simple test for both PHP and MySQL. Now upload this to your webspace and go to i t in your browser. Part 2. PHP/MySQL Tutorial - Part 2. Introduction Before you actually start building your database scripts, you must have a database to place information into and read it from. In this section I will show you how to create a database in MySQL and prepare it for the data. I will also begin to show you how to create the contacts management database. Database Construction MySQL databases have a standard setup.

They are made up of a database, in which is contained tables. Databases And Logins The process of setting up a MySQL database varies from host to host, you will however end up with a database name, a user name and a password. If you have PHPMyAdmin (or a similar program) installed you can just go to it to log in with your user name and password. Creating A Table Before you can do anything with your database, you must create a table. Creating a table in PHPMyAdmin is simple, just type the name, select the number of fields and click the button. Fields These are just a few of the fields which are available. Fields Part 3. Copying tables in MySQL. Whether you need to copy a test table to a production database, or you need to duplicate a table with only some selected rows or you just need to backup the original table, copying tables is a frequent task most of us regularly do. In this post we will see some quick methods to make copies of MySQL database tables.

For these examples I’ve used the following table structure. Quickly copying tables. The most common task is to copy the table structures. The following statement copies the structure of the ‘admin’ table to a new table called ‘newadmin’. Note that only the structure and not the data is copied to the new table. To also copy the data use the following statement. In the above examples it is assumed that the source and the destination tables which we want to copy are in the same database, but you can also copy tables from another database by prefixing the database name before the table. You can also specify the destination database in the query. In conclusion b.