Question

Hey, I am wondering how to extract the data from a table in a database onto a table in a page (users.php),

For example:
I want to be able to get all of the usernames and all the id’s from my database onto a table.
So if I have in my database:

1 – Fred

2 – Frank

3 – Margret

It will see that I have them user’s and id’s in the database and print them onto a table.

Any help would be great,
Thanks.

Answer 1

Connect to your database. Host is the location, like localhost if its on your computer, or on the same server as your code. User and Password are self explanatory.

mysql_connect("host", "user", "pass");

The name of the database you want to access.

mysql_select_db("database");

The actual mysql query.

$result = mysql_query('SELECT `User_Name`, `User_ID` FROM TABLE');

Sort it into an array

while($temp = mysql_fetch_array($result)
{
    $id = $temp['User_ID'];
    $array[$id]['User_ID'] = $id;
    $array[$id]['User_Name'] = $temp['User_Name'];
}

Turn the array into a table. (You could skip the last step and go right to this one.

$html ='<table><tr><td>User ID</td><td>User Name</td></tr>';
foreach($array as $id => $info)
{
    $html .= '<tr><td>'.$info['User_ID'].'</td><td>'.$info['User_Name'].'</td></tr>';
}
echo $html . '</table>';

Or, the formatting you wanted

$html ='User Id - User Name';
foreach($array as $id => $info)
{
    $html .= $info['User_ID'].' - '.$info['User_Name'].'<br>';
}
echo $html;