PHP - Outputting Table With Mysql Join

Hello,

I have a script that processes data from a form, and then outputs data from a MySQL table based on which selections are made on the form.

What I'm trying to do is create columns showing data for each month depending on which months the user selects, and then a "Total" column at the end of that. The output first determines the "family" the results are in, then the ID the product is for the parent family, and then it outputs the data based on what ID is listed.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this without nesting while loops inside other while loops which I know is bad for server performance - and yes this does take a long time to complete.  Here is some of my code for this to show what I'm doing wrong:

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$searchdatabase5 = "SELECT field3 FROM slssum2 WHERE company = '$companyname' AND CONCAT(year,month) BETWEEN '$startyear$startmonth' AND '$endyear$endmonth' AND field3 != 0 AND field4 != '995' GROUP BY field3";
$run5 = mysql_query($searchdatabase5) or die(mysql_error());
while($row5 = mysql_fetch_assoc($run5))
{
 $field5_3 = $row5['field3'];
 echo '<tr><td colspan="0"><hr style="width: 100%; height: 1px; color: #a0a0a0;"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="0" bgcolor="#ccffcc"><strong>FAMILY '. $field5_3 .'</strong><br /></td></tr>';
   $searchdatabase12 = "SELECT field4 FROM slssum2 WHERE company = '$companyname' AND CONCAT(year,month) BETWEEN '$startyear$startmonth' AND '$endyear$endmonth' AND field3 = '$field5_3' AND field4 != 0 GROUP BY field4";
   $run12 = mysql_query($searchdatabase12) or die(mysql_error());
   while($row12 = mysql_fetch_assoc($run12))
   {
    $field12_4 = $row12['field4'];
$searchdatabase6 = "SELECT field3,field4,field5,field6 FROM slssum2 WHERE company = '$companyname' AND CONCAT(year,month) BETWEEN '$startyear$startmonth' AND '$endyear$endmonth' AND field4 = '$field12_4' GROUP BY field3,field4,field5";
$run6 = mysql_query($searchdatabase6) or die(mysql_error());
while($row6 = mysql_fetch_assoc($run6))
{
$field6_3 = $row6['field3'];
$field6_4 = $row6['field4'];
$field6_5 = $row6['field5'];
$field6_6 = $row6['field6'];
echo '<tr><td colspan="0">'. $field6_5 .' - '. $field6_6 .'</td></tr><tr><td valign="middle" align="left" bgcolor="#ccc" width="183px">Units</td>';
$searchdatabase7 = "SELECT * FROM slssum2 WHERE company = '$companyname' AND CONCAT(year,month) BETWEEN '$startyear$startmonth' AND '$endyear$endmonth' AND field5 = '$field6_5' ORDER BY year,month ASC";
$run7 = mysql_query($searchdatabase7) or die(mysql_error());
while($row7 = mysql_fetch_assoc($run7))
{
$field7_3 = $row7['field3'];
$field7_4 = $row7['field4'];
$field7_5 = $row7['field5'];    
$field7_9 = $row7['field9'];
$field7_10 = $row7['field10'];
$field7_month = $row7['month'];
$field7_year = $row7['year'];
$startmonth2 = ltrim($startmonth, '0');
echo '<td bgcolor="#e6e6e6" width="95px" nowrap="nowrap" align="right">'; echo $field7_10; echo '</td>';
  }
Here is the output:



I know the code is very bad, but what would be the best way to recreate what I have in the image?

Thank you.

Hi guys,

I am very simply inserting text into a table with php and mysql, and outputting it, it all works fine but when I use paragraphs when inserting it, and then try to ouput it, all the paragraphs are gone and it looks like one big block of text, I suppose the way to go around this is to use <br> instead of just enters as it probably doesnt read this, but is it possible to make this text area do read and insert <br>'s where people use enter to make paragraphs?

Much help appreciated, I realize this must be a very beginner question but I am not really sure how to word this so I wasn't sure on specific search on this.

Hi All,

I have done a select from my DB and the data contains a '.

echo "<td><a class='btn btn-primary col-sm-12' data-toggle='modal' data-userid='" . $uid . "' href='#userModal' data-firstname='" . $ufn ."' data-lastname='". $uln."' data-email='" . $ue . "' data-accountlevel='" . $ualid . "' data-mobile='".$um ."'data-role='".$urid."' data-active-sheets='".$ename."'>Manage</a></td>";

outputs

<a class="btn btn-primary col-sm-12" data-toggle="modal" data-userid="2" href="#userModal" data-firstname="Chelsea" data-lastname="Hockley" data-email="chelsea@hotmail.com" data-accountlevel="1" data-mobile="0774882" data-role="1" data-active-sheets="A new event,Chelsea" s="" event'="">Manage</a>

the issue part

data-active-sheets="A new event,Chelsea" s="" event'=""

Should be

data-active-sheets="A new event,Chelsea's event"

How do i prevent the ' from causing me this issue?

Hello guys. I am facing a little problem on my website when I am trying to output the data from the database in the form of a table. If you go to http://sigmalogistix.com/track-trace/ and enter any on of the following B/L No's:

123456789
987651234
543216789

You can see that the table is being created but the data is not being shown to the user. If I switch back to the old code in which there was no table, then the data is being shown to the user upon entering the B/L No. Please help me guys. Attached below are the codes which I have inside the function.inc.php file and the index.php file.

function.inc.php

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<?php
include 'db.inc.php';
function search_results($keywords) {
  $returned_results = array();
  $where = "";
  $keywords = preg_split('/[\s]+/', $keywords);
  $total_keywords = count($keywords);
foreach($keywords as $key=>$keyword){
        $where .= "`keywords` LIKE '%$keyword%'";
    if ($key != ($total_keywords - 1)) {
    $where .= " AND ";
     }
  }
  $results = "SELECT `Bill_No`, `Origin_City`, `Origin_Country`, `Destination_City`, `Destination_Country`, `Status`, `Current_Location` FROM `billoflading` WHERE $where";
  $results_num = ($results = mysql_query($results)) ? mysql_num_rows($results) : 0;
  if ($results_num === 0) {
    return false;
}   else {
    while ($results_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
      $returned_results[] = array (
                'Bill_No' => $results_row['Bill_No'],
                'Origin_City' => $results_row['Origin_City'],
                'Origin_Country' => $results_row['Origin_Country'],
                'Destination_City' => $results_row['Destination_City'],
                'Destination_Country' => $results_row['Destination_Country'],
                'Status' => $results_row['Status'],
                'Current_Location' => $results_row['Current_Location']
     );
   }
  
   return $returned_results;
  }
  }
?>
index.php

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<?php include 'func.inc.php'; ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>search</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="POST">
    <p>
        <input type="text" name="keywords" size="17" maxlength="9" value="Enter B/L No." onfocus="if(this.value == 'Enter B/L No.'){this.value = '';}" /> <input type="submit" class="formbutton" value="Track" />
    </p>
</form>
<?php
if  (isset($_POST['keywords'])) {
 $suffix = "";
 $keywords = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities(trim($_POST['keywords'])));
$errors = array();
if (empty($keywords)) {
  $errors[] = '';
 } else if (strlen($keywords)<9) {
  $errors[] = '<br><strong>Your Bill of Lading Number must contain 9-digits.</strong>';
 } else if (search_results($keywords) === false) {
  $errors[] = '<br><strong>Please enter a valid Bill of Lading Number.</strong>';
 }
if (empty($errors)) {
   $results = search_results($keywords);
   $results_num = count($results);
   $suffix = ($results_num !=1) ? 's' : '';
   foreach($results as $result) {
     echo '<br><table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th><strong>B/L No.</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Origin City</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Origin Country</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Destination City</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Destination Country</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Status</strong></th>
            <th><strong>Current Location</strong></th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <?php
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) {
    ?>
        <tr>
            <td><?php echo $row["Bill_No"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Origin_City"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Origin_Country"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Destination_City"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Destination_Country"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Status"]; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $row["Current_Location"]; ?></td>
        </tr>
    <?php
    }
    ?>
    </tbody>
</table>';
 }
 } else {
   foreach($errors as $error) {
    echo $error, '</br>';
  }
 }
}
?>
</body>
</html>

I'm a beginner to PHP and am stuck as to how I can fetch data from a MYSQL database and output that information in html to the website. Currently I get the information from the database using normal php:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM truffleProducts");

Then I assign each field from the database to a php variable in a while loop:
 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$id = $row{'id'};
$name = $row{'name'};
$price = $row{'Price_per_kg'};
$season = $row{'Season'};
$country = $row{'Country'};
$image = $row{'image'};
$review = $row{'review'};
}

Then I just print each variable in a table using simple html and php. My problem is that it only outputs the latest element or row from my database. I want to output the database within a HTML template so that it is professional and tidy, but i cant figure out how to do that. Any help?
Edited by louiscb, 22 October 2014 - 07:58 AM.