How can users create categories and albums for uploading images using PHP?

To create categories and albums for uploading images using PHP, users can utilize a database to store information about the categories and albums. They can create tables for categories and albums with appropriate fields such as name, description, and image count. Users can then create forms to add new categories and albums, and associate images with specific categories and albums when uploading.

// Code snippet to create a categories table in a MySQL database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "your_database";

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

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

// SQL to create categories table
$sql = "CREATE TABLE categories (
id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
description VARCHAR(100),
image_count INT(6) DEFAULT 0
)";

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

$conn->close();