Question

I want to retrieve data from a database with PHP and show it on a website.

This code does not work correctly. I want to display all cars that are Chevy on my database.

<?php
$db = mysqli_connect("localhost","myusername",
"mypassword","database");

if (mysqli_connect_errno()) { 
    echo("Could not connect" .
      mysqli_connect_error($db) . "</p>");
    exit(" ");
}

$result = mysqli_query($query);

if(!$result){
  echo "<p> Could not retrieve at this time, please come back soon</p>" .   
    mysqli_error($dv);
}

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cars where carType = 'Chevy' AND active = 1")
  or die(mysql_error());

echo"<table border cellpadding=3>";
while($row= mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
  echo"<tr>";
  echo"<th>Name:</th> <td>".$row['name'] . "</td> ";
  echo"<th>ImagePath:</th> <td>".$row['imagePath'] . " </td></tr>";
  echo"<th>Description:</th> <td>".$row['description'] . "</td> ";
  echo"<th>Price:</th> <td>".$row['Price'] . " </td></tr>";
}
echo"</table>";
?>

How do I get data from the database with PHP?

Answer 1

you are not querying to database so it wont give you result

this is how it works

1. connect to the database by mysql_connect()

   mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error());

2. than select the database like mysql_select_db()

   mysql_select_db("Database_Name") or die(mysql_error());

3. you need to use mysql_query()

like

 $query = "SELECT * FROM cars where carType = 'chevy' AND active = 1";
 $result =mysql_query($query); //you can also use here or die(mysql_error()); 

to see if error

4. and than mysql_fetch_array()

   if($result){
   while($row= mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
   //result
   }
   }

so try

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM cars where carType = 'chevy' AND active = 1")  or die(mysql_error()); 
 echo"<table border cellpadding=3>"; 
 while($row= mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
 { 
    echo"<tr>"; 
    echo"<th>Name:</th> <td>".$row['name'] . "</td> "; 
    echo"<th>ImagePath:</th> <td>".$row['imagePath'] . " </td></tr>"; 
    echo"<th>Description:</th> <td>".$row['description'] . "</td> "; 
    echo"<th>Price:</th> <td>".$row['Price'] . " </td></tr>"; 
 } 
 echo"</table>"; 
 ?> 

**Note:**

`Mysql_*` function are deprecated so use `PDO` or `MySQLi` instead . I would suggest PDO its lot more easier and simple to read you can learn here [PDO Tutorial for MySQL Developers][5] also check [Pdo for beginners ( why ? and how ?)][6]