SQL with PHP
PHP and MySQL at the Movies
This tutorial takes you through building a web site to show details of Movies held in a database.
School of computing students at Edinburgh Napier University can complete this tutorial using the server socwebtech1.napier.ac.uk other students will need access to a server set up the database first.
Setting up a server from Amazon
- Choose an image and launch it
- Connect to your server with putty
- Convert pem to ppk with puttygen
- Connect with putty
- Install apache, mysql and php
- Check each of these is running
Exploring the movie database
- Download and install the database http://sqlzoo.net/moviesm.sql and set up a user
- Examine the tables
- Some queries on movie, actor and casting
PHP
- Hello world with php
- Calculations
- Debugging
- Connect to a database and run a simple query
- Use a JOIN to get the director, show an image
- Parameterise the page
- Protect from SQL injection
- Create the actor page
- Create the movie page
- Creating links