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MySQL database provides a LIMIT clause which is used to specify the number of records displayed (returned).

This feature that PHP has is very useful for optimizing the page load time when we have a very large number of records in DataBase, as well as to improve the readability of a website.

For example, when we have a very large number of entries in the DataBase, it can be divided into several pages using pagination, where a limited number of entries will be uploaded on each page when a user requests that page by clicking on the pagination link.

Syntax:

SELECT * FROM table_name LIMIT value;

PHP MySQL Limit Data - MySQLi (object oriented)

Suppose we want to select all records from 1 to 25 (inclusive) from table "Users". The SQL query will look like this:

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<?php
 $server_name = "localhost";

  $user_name = "my_username";

  $password = "my_password";

  $db_name = "my_DB";


/* Attempt MySQL server connection. */

  $link = new mysqli($server_name, $user_name,

  $password, $db_name);


 // Check connection

  if($mlink === false){

  die("ERROR: Could not connect. " . $link->connect_error);

  }

  // Attempt select query execution

  $sql = "SELECT * FROM Users LIMIT 25";

  if($result = $link->query($sql)){

  if($result->num_rows > 0){

  echo "<table>";

  echo "<tr>";

  echo "<th>ID</th>";

  echo "<th>First Name</th>";

  echo "<th>Last Name</th>";

  echo "<th>UserName</th>";

  echo "<th>email</th>";

  echo "</tr>";

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

  echo "<tr>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['id'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['first_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['last_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['user_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['email'] . "</td>";

  echo "</tr>";

  }

  echo "</table>";

  // Free result set

  $result->free();

  } else{

  echo "No records matching your query were found.";

  }

  } else{

  echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . $link->error;

  }

  

  

  // Close connection

  $link->close();

  ?>

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PHP MySQL Limit Data - MySQLi (Procedural)

The SQL query below says "return only 14 records per page, start on record 21 (OFFSET 20)": Example using MySQLi (Procedural)

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<?php
 $server_name = "localhost";

  $user_name = "my_username";

  $password = "my_password";

  $db_name = "my_DB";


/* Attempt MySQL server connection. */

  $link = mysqli_connect($server_name, $user_name,

  $password, $db_name);


// Check connection

  if($link === false){

  die("ERROR: Could not connect. " . mysqli_connect_error());

  }
// Attempt select query execution

  $sql = "SELECT * FROM Users LIMIT 20, 14";

  if($result = mysqli_query($link, $sql)){

  if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0){
 echo "<table>";

  echo "<tr>";

  echo "<th>ID</th>";

  echo "<th>First Name</th>";

  echo "<th>Last Name</th>";

  echo "<th>UserName</th>";

  echo "<th>email</th>";

  echo "</tr>";

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

  echo "<tr>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['id'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['first_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['last_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['user_name'] . "</td>";

  echo "<td>" . $row['email'] . "</td>";

  echo "</tr>";

  }

  echo "</table>";

  // Close result set

  mysqli_free_result($result);

  } else{

  echo "No records matching your query were found.";

  }

  } else{

  echo "ERROR: Could not able to execute $sql. " . mysqli_error($link);

  }

  

  // Close connection

  mysqli_close($link);

  ?>

The example above "return only 14 records, start on record 21 (OFFSET 20)":
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Users LIMIT 20, 14";
We used Shorter syntax to achieve the the result:

Using OFFSET
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Orders LIMIT 14 OFFSET 20";

PHP Get Last ID - MySQLi (PDO) extension

The following example insert another row and get the last ID from table named "Users" in database my_DB using PDO

Example (this is HTML - PHP editor, change text on this window)

<?php
 $server_name = "localhost";

  $user_name = "my_username";

  $password = "my_password";

  $db_name = "my_DB";


try {

  $link = new PDO("mysql:host=$server_name;dbname=$db_name",

  $user_name, $password);

  // set the PDO error mode to exception

  $link->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);


 $sql = "INSERT INTO Members (first_name, last_name, user_name, email)

  VALUES  ('Stwart', 'Martin', 'StwartM', 'StwartM@agernic.com'";

  // use exec() because no results are returned

  $link->exec($sql);

  $last_id = $conn->lastInsertId();

  echo "New record created successfully. Last inserted ID is: " . $last_id;

  } catch(PDOException $e) {

  echo $sql . "<br />" . $e->getMessage();

  }


$link = null;
 ?>

Output
last id : 4

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PHP MySQLi Limit Data - php tutorial

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