PHP MySQL Create Table

To create a table in a MySQL database using PHP, you need to connect to the database and execute an SQL query. Here's how you can do it using both MySQLi and PDO:

Create a MySQL Database Using MySQLi and PDO

CREATE TABLE student (
id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(50),
reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)

Using MySQLi:

<?php

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$database = "your_database";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// SQL query to create a table
$sql = "CREATE TABLE users (
    id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
    lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
    email VARCHAR(50),
    reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
)";

// Execute query
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
    echo "Table created successfully";
} else {
    echo "Error creating table: " . $conn->error;
}

$conn->close();

?>

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Output

Using PDO:

<?php

$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$database = "your_database";

try {
    // Create connection
    $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$database", $username, $password);
    // Set the PDO error mode to exception
    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

    // SQL query to create a table
    $sql = "CREATE TABLE users (
        id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
        firstname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
        lastname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
        email VARCHAR(50),
        reg_date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
    )";

    // Use exec() because no results are returned
    $conn->exec($sql);
    echo "Table created successfully";
} catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo $sql . "
" . $e->getMessage();
}

$conn = null;
?>

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Output

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