Load txt from SQL Database

Question

I have a html code with javascript that loads the data from the same directory or a given folder, that's to say the url is just "folder/text.txt".

However, if I want to extract and read this file from a mySQL database named for example exampledb, how can I indicate the new url in my code in order to import the data with Javascript just as I did with a local file?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You will need to use a server side programming language to talk with your database, I would strongly recommend PHP or looking into some more advanced technology like Angular.js along side Node.js!

Here is a quick PHP/mysqli example on pulling data and displaying it in a table. taken from w3

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
} 

$sql = "SELECT id, firstname, lastname FROM MyGuests";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    echo "<table><tr><th>ID</th><th>Name</th></tr>";
    // output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "<tr><td>".$row["id"]."</td><td>".$row["firstname"]." ".$row["lastname"]."</td></tr>";
    }
    echo "</table>";
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();
?>

There is several ways to tackle this, that is just a start. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp