php mysql insert

Insert Data Into MySQL Using MySQLi and PDO

After a database and a table have been created, we can start adding data in

them.

Here are some syntax rules to follow:

The SQL query must be quoted in PHP

String values inside the SQL query must be quoted

Numeric values must not be quoted

The word NULL must not be quoted

The INSERT INTO statement is used to add new records to a MySQL table:

INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3,...)

VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)

To learn more about SQL, please visit our SQL tutorial.

In the previous chapter we created an empty table named "MyGuests" with

five columns: "id", "firstname", "lastname", "email" and "reg_date".

Now, let us fill the table with data.

Note: If a column is AUTO_INCREMENT (like the "id" column) or TIMESTAMP

with default update of current_timesamp

(like the "reg_date" column), it is no need to be specified in

the SQL query; MySQL will automatically add the value.

The following examples add a new record to the "MyGuests" table:

Example (MySQLi Object-oriented)

<?php$servername = "localhost";$username = "username";$password = "password";$dbname = "myDB";// Create connection$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection

if ($conn->connect_error) {

  die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);}



$sql = "INSERT INTO MyGuests (firstname, lastname, email)

VALUES ('John', 'Doe', 'john@example.com')";

if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {  echo "New record created successfully";} else {

  echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;}$conn->close();

?>

Example (MySQLi Procedural)

<?php$servername = "localhost";$username = "username";$password = "password";$dbname = "myDB";// Create connection

$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection

if (!$conn) {

  die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());}$sql = "INSERT INTO MyGuests (firstname, lastname, email)

VALUES ('John', 'Doe', 'john@example.com')";

if (mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {  echo "New record created successfully";} else {  echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . mysqli_error($conn);}mysqli_close($conn);

?>

Example (PDO)

<?php$servername = "localhost";$username = "username";

$password = "password";$dbname = "myDBPDO";try {  $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$dbname", $username, $password);

  // set the PDO error mode to exception  $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

  $sql = "INSERT INTO MyGuests (firstname, lastname, email)

 

VALUES ('John', 'Doe', 'john@example.com')";

  // use exec() because no results are returned  $conn->exec($sql);

  echo "New record created successfully";} catch(PDOException $e)

{  echo $sql . "<br>" . $e->getMessage();

}

$conn = null;

?>