Question

I am querying results from a database, where more than one result should be queried. However, when I tried displaying the result of the query, only one result showed, so I tried to use a foreach function, but it’s still not working. I’m beat, no idea what I’m doing wrong. Anyone have a good idea of what’s going wrong?

Here’s the MySQL query code:

<?php


    //Database Information 
    $dbhost = ""; 
    $dbname = ""; 
    $dbuser = ""; 
    $dbpass = ""; 

    //Connect to database 
    mysql_connect ( $dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die("Could not connect: ".mysql_error()); 
    mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error()); 

    $filename = $_GET['filename'];

$new_captions = mysql_query("SELECT * from captions where image = 'http://math.stanford.edu/inc/img/PalmDrive.png' ORDER BY idnum DESC LIMIT 5");
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($new_captions)){
    $caption = $rows;
    }

?>

And here’s the foreach:

<?php foreach($caption as $rows) {?>

<div id="set_caption" style="width:<?php echo $caption['width'];?>px; height:<?php echo $caption['height'];?>px; left:<?php echo $caption['posleft'];?>px; top:<?php echo $caption['postop'];?>px;"><?php echo $caption['text'];?></div>

<?php } ?>

Answer 1

You have following mistakes.

1. $caption is not declare before.
2. use array_push or $caption[] = $rows; to make caption array.

3. Use $row variable in the foreach.

   //Database Information 
   $dbhost = ""; 
   $dbname = ""; 
   $dbuser = ""; 
   $dbpass = ""; 
   
   //Connect to database 
   mysql_connect ( $dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die("Could not connect: ".mysql_error()); 
   mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error()); 
   
   $filename = $_GET['filename'];
   
   $new_captions = mysql_query("SELECT * from captions where image = 'http://math.stanford.edu/inc/img/PalmDrive.png' ORDER BY idnum DESC LIMIT 5");
   
   $caption = array();
   
   while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($new_captions)){
        $caption[] = $rows;
   }
   
   foreach($caption as $row) {        
   <div id="set_caption" 
        style="width:<?php echo $row['width'];?>px; 
               height:<?php echo $row['height'];?>px; 
               left:<?php echo $row['posleft'];?>px;  
               top:<?php echo $row['postop'];?>px;">
        <?php echo $row['text'];?>
   </div>        
   

   }