How can PHP be used to retrieve data from a MySQL database for a news system?

To retrieve data from a MySQL database for a news system using PHP, you can establish a connection to the database, write a SQL query to select the desired data, execute the query, and then fetch the results to display on the website. 

<?php
// Establish connection to MySQL database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "news_system";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

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

// Write SQL query to retrieve news data
$sql = "SELECT id, title, content FROM news";

// Execute the query
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Fetch and display the results
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "ID: " . $row["id"]. " - Title: " . $row["title"]. " - Content: " . $row["content"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

// Close the connection
$conn->close();
?>

Keywords

PHP MySQL database retrieval news system data extraction

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