Question

I am currently still learning PHP so some things I still struggle with.
I have been taking it slowly and reading tutorials which has helped but I can’t figure this one out.

I have a database table (in mysql) with let’s say, 100 urls. There is a column called ‘url’ and a second column ‘text’. I already have the pagination code which works, so will also be using that.

What I want to do is echo out the URLs (which are all in folder called blog in the root of my site), but use the text as the link.

So for example the first three rows in my table might be:

url
001.php
002.php
003.php

text
random text
some random text
more text

when echoed out the links show the text from the column text like:

random text
some random text
more text

and will open to the relevant url when clicked

I’m guessing it will need some kind of loop to collect all the URLs and save me adding the link text in manually, and then my pagination code will split them up.

This is my first time asking a question on here, so if it wasn’t clear enough or you need more info, let me know.

I have done multiple searches on the internet but can’t seem to find a tutorial.

Answer 1

Assuming you connect to a local mysql server with username “root” and password “root”, and have your url’s stored in a table named url_table in a database named url_database you could do something like:

$connection = mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root"); // Connect to the mysql server
mysql_select_db("url_database"); // Open the desired database

$query = "SELECT url,text FROM url_table"; // Query to select the fields in each row
$result = mysql_query($query); // Run the query and store the result in $result

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) // While there are still rows, create an array of each
{
    echo "<a href='".$row['url']."'>".$row['text']."</a>"; // Write an anchor with the url as href, and text as value/content
}

mysql_close($connection); // close the previously opened connection to the database