How to Create a MySQL Table with PDO in PHP

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to create a MySQL table with PDO in PHP. The database table has its own unique name and consists of columns and rows. To create a new table in a database, we use the statement CREATE TABLE. The following SQL statement creates the table “Users”:

CREATE TABLE Users (
	id INT(3) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
	firstname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	lastname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	address VARCHAR(250)
)

The above SQL statement creates the “Users” table through a command-line tool or a MySQL GUI tool. However, we are going to use the PDO API to create tables with PHP.
 
 

How to Create a MySQL Table with PDO in PHP

<?php
 $host='localhost';
 $dbname = 'test';
 $username = 'root';
 $password = '';
 
 try{
  $dsn = "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname";
  $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password);
 
  $sql = <<<EOSQL
CREATE TABLE Users (
	id INT(3) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
	firstname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	lastname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	address VARCHAR(250)
) ENGINE=InnoDB
EOSQL;
 
  $msg = '';
  
  $res = $pdo->exec($sql);
 
  if($res !== false){
	 $msg =  "The Users table is created successfully!";
  }else{
	 $msg =  "Error occurs when creating the Users table.";
  }

  // display the message
  if($msg != '')
	 echo $msg;
 
  }catch (PDOException $e){
	 echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>

 

How it works!

• We have created a connection to the MySQL database by instantiating an instance of the PDO class and passing the $dsn argument to its constructor.
• Next, we specified the SQL statement that creates the “Users” table.
• Finally, we call the exec() method of the PDO class to execute the SQL statement.

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