Using PHP's PDO syntax now

2019-11-24 22:26:17 -05:00
parent 064d1e25c3
commit dc0c7f4381
1 changed files with 23 additions and 23 deletions
--- a/var/www/phptest.php
+++ b/var/www/phptest.php
@@ -1,38 +1,38 @@
 <?php
-$servername = "localhost";
+$server = "localhost";
+$database = "friendBook";
 $username = "web";
 $password = "Password456";

-// Create connection
-$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
-
-// Check connection
-if ($conn->connect_error) {
-    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
-}
-echo "Connected successfully";
-
-?>
+// Current user
+$user = "William"; // Testing with until we have login working

 <html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
-        <h1>PHP connect to MySQL</h1>
+        <h1>PHP Test Page - Connecting to MySQL</h1>

        <?php
-        //Step2
-        $query = "SELECT * FROM contacts";
-        mysqli_query($db, $query) or die('Error querying database.');
-
-        //Step3
-        $result = mysqli_query($db, $query);
-        $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
-
-        while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
-        echo $row['first_name'] . ' ' . $row['last_name'] . ': ' . $row['email'] . ' ' . $row['city'] .'<br />';
+        try{
+            $connection = new PDO("mysql:host=$server;dbname=$database", $username, $password);
+            // set the PDO error mode to exception
+            $connection->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
+            echo "Connected successfully";
        }
-        //Step 4
+        catch(PDOException $e){
+            echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
+        }
+
+        $sql = "SELECT messageID, date, message 
+                FROM messages
+                WHERE recipient=$user";
+        foreach($connection->query($sql) as $row){
+            print $row['messageID'] . "\t";
+            print $row['date'] . "\t";
+            print $row['message'] . "\t";
+        }
+
        mysqli_close($db);
        ?>