Show values from a MySQL database table inside a HTML table on a webpage

Example taken from W3Schools: PHP Select Data from MySQL

<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("example.com","peter","abc123","my_db");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM Persons");

echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

mysqli_close($con);
?>

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Try this: (Completely Dynamic...)

<?php
$host    = "localhost";
$user    = "username_here";
$pass    = "password_here";
$db_name = "database_name_here";

//create connection
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
$connection = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db_name);

//get results from database
$result = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT * FROM products");
$all_property = array();  //declare an array for saving property

//showing property
echo '<table class="data-table">
        <tr class="data-heading">';  //initialize table tag
while ($property = mysqli_fetch_field($result)) {
    echo '<td>' . $property->name . '</td>';  //get field name for header
    $all_property[] = $property->name;  //save those to array
}
echo '</tr>'; //end tr tag

//showing all data
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "<tr>";
    foreach ($all_property as $item) {
        echo '<td>' . $row[$item] . '</td>'; //get items using property value
    }
    echo '</tr>';
}
echo "</table>";

Learn more about PHP and the MySQLi Library at PHP.net.

First, start a connection to the database. Do this by making all the string variables needed in order to connect, adjusting them to fit your environment, then creating a new connection object with new mysqli() and initializing 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();
?>