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Program Example 8.2:

PHP program to generate dynamic content

<?php Chapter Eight: Databases and Database Management Systems
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// Connect to database

$servername = “localhost”;
$username = “username”;

$password = “password”;
$dbname = “database”;

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

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {

die(“Connection failed: “ . $conn->connect_error);

}
// Fetch data from the database

$sql = “SELECT * FROM table”;
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Display data on the webpage
echo “<ul>”;

while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {

echo “<li>” . $row[“column_name”] . “</li>”;
}

echo “</ul>”;

// Close connection
$conn->close();

?>

Step 2: Embed the PHP code within the HTML file using the `<?php ?>` tags are
shown in Program Example 8.3.

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