PHP/MySQL Tutorial - PHP MySQL Connection How to Select Individual Records

 Step 5: As well as showing the whole database, PHP can be used to select individual records, or records which match certain criteria. To do this you must use a variation of the SELECT query. To display the whole table use the query:

SELECT * FROM tablename

If we just want to select records which have value=1 in the field1-name row we would use the following query:

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE field1-name='1'

In the same way you could select records based on any field in the database. You can also search in more fields by adding more:

field='value'

sections into the query.

For further reference you can visit the official websites of PHP and MySQL.

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