How do you output database using a table in PHP?

2 years ago
Sophia Anderson
2 minutes

In PHP, you can use HTML tables to display data from a database.

Let’s say we have a database table named “users” that includes fields for id, name, and email.

Firstly, connect to the database.

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if (!$conn) {
    die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

Next, retrieve data from the database and store the results in a variable.

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

Next, utilize an HTML table to display the search results.

if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    echo "<table>";
    echo "<tr><th>ID</th><th>Name</th><th>Email</th></tr>";
    while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
        echo "<tr><td>".$row["id"]."</td><td>".$row["name"]."</td><td>".$row["email"]."</td></tr>";
    }
    echo "</table>";
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

Finally, close the database connection.

mysqli_close($conn);

The complete code is shown below:

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";

$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if (!$conn) {
    die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
    echo "<table>";
    echo "<tr><th>ID</th><th>Name</th><th>Email</th></tr>";
    while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
        echo "<tr><td>".$row["id"]."</td><td>".$row["name"]."</td><td>".$row["email"]."</td></tr>";
    }
    echo "</table>";
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

mysqli_close($conn);

This way, the data from the database can be outputted using an HTML table.

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