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We use the SELECT statement to select or retrieve data from a database. Its systax follows:

SELECT column_name(s)
FROM table_name

We have to use PHP mysql_query() function to execute the above statement. Let's see an example:

Example
The following example selects all the data stored in the "Students" table. Note that the * character is used to select all the data in the table:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost", "adam", "ada");
if (!$con)
{
die('Error connecting database');
}
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Students ");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo $row['name'] . " " . $row['address'];
echo "<br />";
}
mysql_close($con);
?>

The above example stores the data returned by the mysql_query() function in the $result variable. It, then uses the mysql_fetch_array() function in the while loop to display that data. Please note that the first call to mysql_fetch_array() returns the first record, second call to the function returns the second record and so on. To print the value of each row, we use the PHP $row variable ($row['name'] and $row['address']).

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