How to Connect HTML Form with MySQL Database using PHP
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Stack Overflow users, mostly beginners asking about forms that will not insert into MySQL, cite it as the walkthrough they followed when their own setup failed.
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What it is
A short beginner tutorial that shows how to submit an HTML form to a PHP file and store the data in a MySQL database. It covers the form's action attribute, GET vs POST, reading $_POST, opening a MySQL connection, and using prepared statements with bound parameters to avoid SQL injection. Presented by Technical Babaji (Tarique Akhtar), with source code on GitHub.
What people said
Cites DisabledWhale · 2019-09 · Stack Overflow · on “PHP: Can't insert more than 1 record to database based on web form”
Solution found : I had to set my #ID column to auto_increment. See also: Auto increment in phpmyadmin [LINK] I have made a web formula and I want to fetch the data and insert it in a MySQL database. I am new to PHP and MySQL and I am having some trouble understanding why I can't insert more than 1 row. I have basically just made the following in order to learn to fetch form data: [this video] The guy from the video succeeds at inserting more records from the formula. NB: I am not running on localhost but on a web hotel (with Linux). Part of my troubleshooting: I have differed from procedural- and object-oriented programming and searched StackOverflow to find a way to handle indexes - but i guess
Cites Danie Moller · 2020-04 · Stack Overflow · on “trouble sending to php database”
hi there i have a form and needs to send data to the database but every time i click submit than the page diverts me to the php page i created any help please i have tried the following [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] [LINK] [LINK]
Cites Value_Investor · 2023-03 · Stack Overflow · on “How to resolve a 405 status code error when using PHP POST method?”
In one of my HTML files, some data is sent to a PHP file using the POST method. See below for the HTML. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title> Test </title> </head> <body> <p> Fill in your e-mail address. </p> <form action="test_db.php" method="post"> <label> E-mail<input type="text" name="email" /> </label> <button>Submit</button> </form> </body> </html> And the PHP file currently only has a very simple task: to display the variable passed to it via the HTML form. See below. <?php // Save input $email = $_POST["email"]; // Display var_dump($email); ?> However, when I run the code in Visual Studio Code, and when I fill in the form, I get the error "This page isn’t working", with a 405 status