Question

How to run SQL query in MySQL database with PHP Data Objects (PDO) in PHP

Answer 1

$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'user';
$db_password = 'password';
$db_name = 'database_name';

try 
{
    $con = new PDO("mysql:host=".$db_host.";dbname=".$db_name, $db_user, $db_password);
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}

foreach($con->query("SELECT * FROM table") as $row)
{
  echo $row['field'];
}

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Answer 2

$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'user';
$db_password = 'password';
$db_name = 'database_name';

try 
{
    $con = new PDO("mysql:host=".$db_host.";dbname=".$db_name, $db_user, $db_password);
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}

$result = $con->query("SELECT * FROM table");    
while ($row = $result->fetch()) 
{
    echo $row['field'];
}

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