Echo Multiple Rows

PHP
1

Hi all, I’m working on a search function on my site, thought it would be straight forward but can’t work out why it’s only returning one row when it should return two, I know it should as I have searched in PHPMyAdmin.

Had a browse about on Google and think it may be because I’m using mysql_fetch_array. Tried using mysql_num_rows and that seems to put the thing in an infinite loop so I’m stumped now? I have tried turning on error reporting and got a few warnings over unidentified variables but that’s now all sorted.

$search = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `customers` WHERE `c_address` LIKE '%tq12%'");
				while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($search)){
					$searchRows = '<div class="searchRes">
					<span class="searchRow" style="width: 65px;">'.$row['c_title'].' '.$row['c_firstname'].' '.$row['c_lastname'].'</span>
					<span class="searchAddress" style="width: 100px;">'.str_replace(",","<br/>", $row['c_address']).'</span>
					<span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_number'].'</span>
					<span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_email'].'</span>
					<span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_dob'].'</span>
					<span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_regdate'].'</span>
					<span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_notes'].'</span>
					</div>';
				}
2

Unless you’re using $searchRows elsewhere, this will suffice. :slight_smile:


$search = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `customers` WHERE `c_address` LIKE '%tq12%'");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($search)){
    echo '<div class="searchRes">
    <span class="searchRow" style="width: 65px;">'.$row['c_title'].' '.$row['c_firstname'].' '.$row['c_lastname'].'</span>
    <span class="searchAddress" style="width: 100px;">'.str_replace(",","<br/>", $row['c_address']).'</span>
    <span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_number'].'</span>
    <span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_email'].'</span>
    <span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_dob'].'</span>
    <span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_regdate'].'</span>
    <span class="searchRow">'.$row['c_notes'].'</span>
    </div>';
}
3

Hi Anthony, thanks for your quick response. I was trying to store the the while in a variable and echo it further down the page hence I had the same variable twice. All sorted now, thank you. I’ve just moved the script itself further down the page. Cheers dude :smiley:

4

Have you thought above creating a function for this? You can the just call it where ever you need it; take this very rough example.


function search($table, $field, $like){
  $rows = array();
  
  $sql = sprintf(
    "SELECT * FROM `%s` WHERE `%s` LIKE '%%%s%%';",
    $table,
    $field,
    mysql_real_escape_string($like)
  );
  
  $res = mysql_query($sql);
  
  if(is_resource($res)){
    while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)){
      array_push($rows, $row);
    }
  }
  
  return $rows;
}



<?php foreach(search('customers', 'c_address', 'tq12') as $row): ?>
  <div class="searchRes">
    <span class="searchRow"><?php echo $row['c_number']; ?></span>
    <span class="searchRow"><?php echo $row['c_email']; ?></span>
    <span class="searchRow"><?php echo $row['c_dob']; ?></span>
    <span class="searchRow"><?php echo $row['c_regdate']; ?></span>
    <span class="searchRow"><?php echo $row['c_notes']; ?></span>
  </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

It allows for a little cleaner code too. IMO.

5

Hey dude, that’s perfect, much better and slightly more efficient. Thanks for your time once again :smiley: