Editor’s note: I mentioned in my previous post Display data from MySQL with PHP which I demonstrated how to display the data of a row within a table, now I want to demonstrate how to display all field names (column names) of a table within a MySQL database.

To find and print out the number of column (field) of a table in MySQL database, we have to use a php function “mysql_num_fields()” to get the number and to use a variable to store the result, here I have created an example to demonstrate how to do so:

To import Excel data into the MySQL database’s table is easy. All you have to do is to save the Excel file as “CSV” Format, and use phpmyadmin to complete the job for you. Here I have create an example to show you how to do so:

Editor’s note: In some cases, you might like to check how many records in the MySQL database which matches the query you entered. Case such as a login system where you want to check if there is a record matches the user name and the password inputted , here is an example

Editor’s note: If you are a programmer who involves with a database with UTF8 language encoding records such as Chinese or other Asian languages. You might counter some cases when you try to display the records, the UTF8 language characters might appear to be meaningless symbols. I have found a way to solve this issue.

If you website is not host in home computer but in an external public company and sometimes you might like to test some PHP and MySQL applications, it is not necessary to upload the files there for testing before it actually goes live. We could install a PHP, MySQL and Apache environment in windows for testing. The package is called “AppServ”, and here is how you do it: