First, we'll create a products table in our MySQL test database and insert some records on it:

CREATE TABLE products (

  ID smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,

  NAME varchar(125) NOT NULL default '',

  PRICE float(8,2) NOT NULL default '0.00',

  CODE varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',

  WEIGHT smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',

  PRIMARY KEY (ID)

  ) TYPE=MyISAM;

INSERT INTO products VALUES (1, 'Absolute Delight', '2.20', '59', 50);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (2, 'Aqua Mirabilis', '2.35', '114', 15);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (3, 'Back For Breakfast', '8.30', '1409', 500);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (4, 'Breeze on a Sea Air', '5.95', '223', 75);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (5, 'Figs and Leaves', '3.90', '22819', 100);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (6, 'I love Juicy', '5.95', '2006', 250);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (7, 'Ocean Salt', '9.75', '2128', 150);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (8, 'Serenity', '49.95', '2083', 350);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (9, 'Tisty Tosty', '2.35', '5', 60);

  INSERT INTO products VALUES (10, 'Waving Not Drowning', '1.95', '15', 40);

If nothing went wrong we should have our products table with 10 records. We are now ready to jump into the actual code!