Question

How to create a table with SQL 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);           
  $sql = "CREATE TABLE Workers
         (
           WorkerID int(7) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
           FirstName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
           LastName varchar(255) NOT NULL,
           URL varchar(255) UNIQUE,
           Salary float DEFAULT 0,
           StartWorkingDate TIMESTAMP
         )";
  $con->exec($sql);
}
catch (PDOException $e) 
{
   echo "Error: " . $e->getMessage();
}

 

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