Memfilter Dokumen
Klausa WHERE digunakan untuk mengekstraksi hanya dokumen yang memenuhi kondisi tertentu.
Sintaks dasar klausa WHERE dapat diberikan dengan:

Mari kita membuat query SQL menggunakan klausa WHERE dalam pernyataan SELECT, setelah itu kita akan mengeksekusi query ini dengan mengirimkannya ke fungsi PHP mysqli_query() untuk mendapatkan data yang difilter.
Pertimbangkan kita memiliki tabel persons di dalam basis data demo yang memiliki dokumen berikut:
id | first_name | last_name | email | +----+------------+-----------+----------------------+ | 1 | Peter | Parker | peterparker@mail.com | | 2 | John | Rambo | johnrambo@mail.com | | 3 | Clark | Kent | clarkkent@mail.com | | 4 | John | Carter | johncarter@mail.com | | 5 | Harry | Potter | harrypotter@mail.com
Kode PHP berikut men-select semua baris dari tabel persons di mana first_name=’john’:
<?php
/* Attempt MySQL server connection. Assuming you are running MySQL
server with default setting (user 'root' with no password) */
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "demo");
// Check connection
if($link === false){
die("ERROR: Could not connect. " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
// Attempt select query execution
$sql = "SELECT * FROM persons WHERE first_name='john'";
if($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>email</th>";
echo "</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['id'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['first_name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['last_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);
?>
Setelah filtrasi set hasil akan terlihat seperti ini:
+----+------------+-----------+---------------------+ | id | first_name | last_name | email | +----+------------+-----------+---------------------+ | 2 | John | Rambo | johnrambo@mail.com | | 4 | John | Carter | johncarter@mail.com | +----+------------+-----------+---------------------+