What is the process for selecting and displaying a table from a MySQL database using PHP in a web browser?

To select and display a table from a MySQL database using PHP in a web browser, you need to establish a connection to the database, execute a query to select the data from the table, fetch the results, and then display them in a tabular format on a web page. 

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

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

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

// Select data from table
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Display data in a table
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    echo "<table><tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th></tr>";
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "<tr><td>".$row["column1"]."</td><td>".$row["column2"]."</td></tr>";
    }
    echo "</table>";
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

$conn->close();
?>

Keywords

PHP MySQL database table web browser

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