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CREATE TABLE <code>mydbname</code>.<code>content</code> ( <code>ID</code> INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , <code>title</code> VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL , <code>content</code> LONGTEXT NOT NULL , <code>author</code> VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY (<code>ID</code>)) ENGINE = MyISAM COMMENT = 'content table';
conn.php
file in your root/includes folder.conn.php
file, remember to include your own database credentials.
<?php
$letsconnect = new mysqli("localhost","dbuser","dbpass","dbname");
?>
index.php
at the root of your CMS folder.
<?php
include('includes/conn.php');
if ($letsconnect -> connect_errno) { echo "Error " . $letsconnect -> connect_error;
}else{
$getmydata=$letsconnect -> query("SELECT * FROM content");
foreach($getmydata as $mydata){ echo "Title: "; echo $mydata['title']; echo "<br/>"; echo "Content: "; echo $mydata['content']; echo "<br/>"; echo "Author: "; echo $mydata['author']; echo "<br/>"; echo "<br/>";
}
}
$letsconnect -> close();
?>
index.php
in your backend folder.
<html>
<head><title>Backend - Capture Content</title></head>
<body>
<form action="<?php $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’];?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="title" placeholder="Content Title here" required/>
<textarea name="content">Content Here</textarea>
<input type="text" name="author" placeholder="Author" required/>
<input type="submit" value="Save My Data" name="savedata"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<form>
tag.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['savedata'])){
include('../includes/conn.php');
if ($letsconnect->connect_error) {
die("Your Connection failed: " . $letsconnect->connect_error);
}else{
$sql = "INSERT INTO content(title,content,author)VALUES ('".$_POST["title"]."', '".$_POST["content"]."', '".$_POST["author"]."')";
if (mysqli_query($letsconnect, $sql)) {
echo "Your data was saved successfully!";
} else { echo "Error: " . $sql . "" . mysqli_error($letsconnect);
} $letsconnect->close();
}
}
?>
Note, this is a basic MySQL query to insert data. However, before using this in production it's important to add proper escaping and security to prevent SQL injections. This will be covered in the next article.
We highly recommend that you follow these tutorials on a localhost testing server like Uniserver. Read through Part 1 here to look at our recommendations. These tutorials follow a phased approach and it is highly recommended that you do not make snippets of code live prior to completing this tutorial series.
$sql = "INSERT INTO content(title,content,author)VALUES ('".$_POST["title"]."', '".$_POST["content"]."', '".$_POST["author"]."')";
$title = $letsconnect -> real_escape_string($_POST['title']);
$content = $letsconnect -> real_escape_string($_POST['content']);
$author = $letsconnect -> real_escape_string($_POST['author']);
$letsconnect
? This was used because of our db connection defined in conn.php.$sql = "INSERT INTO content (title,content,author) VALUES ('".$title."', '".$content."', '".$author."')";
$sql
.
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> @csrf <div class="custom-file"> <input type="file" accept=".csv" name="excel" class="custom-file-input" id="customFile" /> <label class="custom-file-label" for="customFile">Choose file</label > </div> <div> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" style="margin-top: 10px" >Submit> </div>
</form>
Note : Don’t forget to add enctype=”multipart/form-data”!
php artisan make:controller UploadController
Route::post('/upload', [UploadController::class, 'upload'])->name('upload')->middleware('auth');
<form method="post" action="{{route('upload')}}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
$file = $request->file('excel');
if (($handle = fopen($file, "r")) !== FALSE) { while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) { ..... }
}
{ "name": "test", "job": "test"
}
if (($handle = fopen($file, "r")) !== FALSE) { while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) { Http::post('https://reqres.in/api/users', [ 'name' => $data[0], 'job' => $data[1], ]); }
}
public function upload(Request $request){ $file = $request->file('excel'); if($file){ $row = 1; $array = []; if (($handle = fopen($file, "r")) !== FALSE) { while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) { if($row > 1){ Http::post('https://reqres.in/api/users', [ 'name' => $data[0], 'job' => $data[1], ]); array_push($array,$data[0]); } $request->session()->flash('status', 'Users '.implode($array,", ").' created successfully!'); $row++; } } }else{ $request->session()->flash('error', 'Please choose a file to submit.'); } return view('dashboard');
}
<div class="container max-w-7xl mx-auto sm:px-6 lg:px-8" style="width: 50%"> @if (session('status')) <div class="alert alert-success"> {{ session('status') }} </div> @endif @if (session('error')) <div class="alert alert-error"> {{ session('error') }} </div> @endif <form action="{{route('upload')}}" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> @csrf <div class="custom-file"> <input type="file" accept=".csv" name="excel" class="custom-file-input" id="customFile" /> <label class="custom-file-label" for="customFile">Choose file</label> </div> <div> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" style="margin-top: 10px">Submit</button> </div> </form>
</div>