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MySQL Tutorial - Creating a New Table

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How To Create a New Table?

If you want to create a table, you can run the CREATE TABLE statement as shown in the following sample script:

<?php
  include "mysql_connection.php";

  $sql = "CREATE TABLE fyi_links ("
      . " id INTEGER NOT NULL" 
      . ", url VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL"
      . ", notes VARCHAR(1024)"
      . ", counts INTEGER"
      . ", time TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()"
      . ")";
  if (mysql_query($sql, $con)) {
    print("Table fyi_links created.\n");
  } else {
    print("Table creation failed with error:\n");
    print(mysql_errno($con).": ".mysql_error($con)."\n");
  }

  mysql_close($con); 
?>

Remember that mysql_query() returns TRUE/FALSE on CREATE statements. If you run this script, you will get something like this:

Table fyi_links created.

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1. How To Create a New Table?
2. How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement?
3. How To Insert Data into an Existing Table?
4. How To Fix the INSERT Command Denied Error?
5. How To Insert Multiple Rows with a SELECT Statement?
6. What Is a Result Set Object?
7. How To Query Tables and Loop through the Returning Rows?
8. How To Break Query Output into Pages?
9. How To Update Existing Rows in a Table?
10. How To Delete Existing Rows in a Table?
11. How To Quote Text Values in SQL Statements?
12. How To Quote Date and Time Values in SQL Statements?
13. How To Display a Past Time in Days, Hours and Minutes?
14. How To Perform Key Word Search in Tables?
15. How To Build WHERE Criteria with Web Form Search Fields?
16. How To Query Multiple Tables Jointly?
17. How To Define the ID Column as Auto-Incremented?
18. How To Get the Last ID Assigned by MySQL?