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Asked: 2026-06-13T17:57:50+00:00

I am just starting to use html, php, and mysql. I’ve successfully logged into

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I am just starting to use html, php, and mysql. I’ve successfully logged into my database using php, and formed a query. I now want to go a step further and show a picture instead of just strings or numbers.

The variable ‘result’ will be returning a string that has a url to an image i want to display on this webpage. How would I do this?

<html>
<head>
<title>My First Question</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php

$dbhost = 'someURL.com';
$dbname = 'user';
$dbuser = 'user';
$dbpass = 'password';

$mysql_handle = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)
    or die("Error Connecting To Database Server");

mysql_select_db($dbname, $mysql_handle)
    or die("Error selecting database: $dbname");

echo 'Successfully connected to database!';

$first = 'bobbie';

$query = sprintf("SELECT image FROM Player 
    p WHERE name='%s'", mysql_real_escape_string($first));

$result = mysql_query($query);

mysql_close($mysql_handle);     

?>

</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Inside PHP, This will turn your SQL response into a usable variable.

    $result = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query));

    Outside of your PHP tags, Echo the URL from the table into the SRC of an IMG element.

    <img src="<?= $result['url_column_name'] ?>"/>

    This will create a new IMG element with the source being the URL that you have fetched from your SQL query.

    Short tags are also a way of echoing PHP variables in HTML.

    <?= $var1, $var2 ?>

    is the equivalent of using

    <?php echo $var; echo $var2; ?>
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