Question

Having trouble using foreach to output the contents of a mysql table. The table (tr, td) etc is being printed out for each entry in the mysql table, but there is nothing between the td and /td tags, where each $item should be echoed.

$sql = 'SELECT domain FROM domainsuggestions'; 
$domains = mysqli_query($link, $sql);  // get domain suggestions from table
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Domain Suggestions</td>
    </tr>   
    <?php foreach ($domains as $item): ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?php echo htmlspecialchars($item, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?></td>
    </tr>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</table>

Answer 1

Your logic for working with MySQL is quite off. You need to perform the query first, grab the resource ID of the results, and then loop through the results.

$sql = 'SELECT domain FROM domainsuggestions'; 
$results= mysqli_query($link, $sql);  // get domain suggestions from table
<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Domain Suggestions</td>
    </tr>   
    <?php while ($item = mysqli_fetch_assoc($results)): ?>
    <tr>
        <td><?php echo htmlspecialchars($item['domain '], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?></td>
    </tr>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
</table>