I am working on a computer with RedHat Linux 7.2 I am running Apache web server and MySQL and Netscape browser I am working local as the root
I am working through exercises from the book PHP Essentials 1st edition by Julie C Meloni.
I am having difficulty with an exercise in chapter 4 regarding Create a Database Table.
I was receiving a Couldn't connect to server. in Netscape browser.
I edited script error and now I am stuck with Couldn't execute query.
So I guess I am able to connect to the server and the database, but not execute the query.
The following is the do_creatable.php script:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Create a Database Table: Step 3</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>
<h1>Adding table <?php echo "$table_name"; ?></h1>
<?php
$sql = "CREATE TABLE $table_name (";
for ($i = 0; $i < count($field_name); $i++) {
$sql .= "$field_name[$i] $field_type[$i]";
if ($field_length[$i] != "") {
$sql .= " ($field_length[$i]),";
} else {
$sql .= ",";
}
}$sql = substr($sql, 0, -1);
$sql .= ")";
$connection = mysql_connect("hostname","username","password")
or die("Couldn't connect to server."); $db = mysql_select_db("database_name", $connection)
or die("Couldn't select database."); $sql_result = mysql_query($sql,$connection)
or die("Couldn't execute query."); if (!$sql_result) {
echo "<P>Couldn't create table!";
} else {
echo "<P>$table_name has been created!";
}
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Vip
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