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First, start a connection to the database. Do this by making all the string variables needed in order to connect, adjust them to fit your environment, then create a new connection object with new mysqli() and initialize it with the previously made variables as its parameters. Now, check the connection for errors and display a message whether any were found or not. Like this:
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "yourPassword";
$database = "world";
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database);
echo "Connected successfully<br>";
?>
Next, make a variable that will hold the query as a string, in this case its a select statement with a limit of 100 records to keep the list small. Then, we can execute it by calling the mysqli::query() function from our connection object. Now, it's time to display some data. Start by opening up a <table> tag through echo, then fetch one row at a time in the form of a numerical array with mysqli::fetch_row() which can then be displayed with a simple for loop. mysqli::field_count should be self explanatory. Don't forget to use <td></td> for each value, and also to open and close each row with echo"<tr>" and echo"</tr>. Finally we close the table, and the connection as well with mysqli::close().
<?php
$query = "select * from city limit 100;";
$queryResult = $conn->query($query);
echo "<table>";
while ($queryRow = $queryResult->fetch_row()) {
echo "<tr>";
for($i = 0; $i < $queryResult->field_count; $i++){
echo "<td>$queryRow[$i]</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
$conn->close();
?>