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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:42:55+00:00

I am working with a school project. The basic ide of the project is,

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I am working with a school project. The basic ide of the project is, that we have some arduino boxes the sends some sensor data to a mysql db and we have a website that display it. Sensor data is sending lets say every 6sec.

I don´t have a lot of experience with PHP. But i am tinkerin my way, learing step by step..cowboy style? =)

The html/ajax/css:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Arduino event poller</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

    <style type = "text/css" media="screen">
        body{ font:13px/1.5 "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, san-serif; background:#FFF; }
        #main{ width:430px; height: 300px; display:block; padding:10px 0; float: left; overflow: auto;}
        .event { display:block; background: #ececec; width:380px; padding:10px; margin:10px; overflow:hidden; text-align: left; }  
        .event img { display:block; float:left; margin-right:10px; }  
        .event p { font-weight: bold; }
        .event img + p { display:inline; }
        .patient-name { display:inline; color: #999999; font-size: 9px; line-height:inherit; padding-left: 5px; }
        .event-text{ color: #999999; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 5px; }
        .event-timestamp{ color: #000; padding-left: 5px; font-size: 9px;}
    </style>

    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

        var timeStamp = null;

        /* Simple helper to add some divs.*/
        function addevents(patientroom, patientname, eventtyp, timestamp)
        {
            $("#main").append(
                "<div class='event'>"
                "<p>" + patientroom + "</p>"
                "<p class='patient-name'>" + patientname + "</p>"
                "<p class='event-text'>" + eventtyp + "</p>"
                "<p class='event-timestamp'>" + timestamp + "</p>"
                "</div>"
                );
        }

        /*This requests the url "getevents.php" When it complete*/
        function waitForEvents()
        {
            $.ajax({
                type: "GET",
                url: "getevents.php?timeStamp=" + timeStamp,

                async: true, /* If set to non-async, browser shows page as "Loading.."*/
                cache: false,
                timeout:50000, /* Timeout in ms */

                success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) /* called when request to getevents.php completes */
                {
                    addevents(data.patientroom, data.patientname, data.eventtyp, data.timestamp);
                        setTimeout(
                          waitForEvents, /* Request next event */
                          1000 /* ..after 1 seconds */                   
                        );
                    },
                error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown){
                    alert("Error:" + textStatus + " (" + errorThrown + ")");
                    setTimeout(
                        'waitForEvents()', /* Try again after.. */
                        "5000"); /* milliseconds (5seconds) */      
                },
            });
        };

        $(document).ready(function(){
                waitForEvents(); /* Start the inital request */
        });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="main">
    </div>
</body>
</html>

My backend php:

<?php
function getEvents()
{
    $con = mysql_connect("localhost","***","***");
        if(!con)
        {
            die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
        }
        mysql_select_db("arduino_db",$con);

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY eventID DESC LIMIT 1");
    if($result)
    {
        $patientroom = $row['rumNr'];
        $patientname = $row['inneboendeNamn'];
        $eventtyp = $row['handelse'];
        $timestamp = $row['timestamp'];
    }

    if($row)
    {
        header('application/json');
                echo json_encode($row);
                exit;
    }

    $lastmodif = isset($_GET['timeStamp']) ? $_GET['timeStamp'] : 0;
    $currentmodif = filemtime($result);

    while($currentmodif <= $lastmodif)
    {
        unsleepp(1000);
        clearstatcache();
        $currentmodif = filemtime($result);
    }
}

?>

My question:

  1. How to I fetch each row from the db and return each row in JSON format to the method “waitForEvents” in the frontend.

The example doesn’t have to be scaleable, secure or complete, it just needs to work =)

UPDATE: new code based on Johns tips. All I gets is a blank page, and no errors.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The first thing that popped out to me is that your MySQL call is sort of blown.

    When you run this line:

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY eventID DESC LIMIT 1");

    You’re going to get a MySQL resource. You need to utilize that to get your row:

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY eventID DESC LIMIT 1");
if ($result)
{
   $row =  mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
   if ($row)
   {
        // Your result is here, as a big associative array.  Each column in your 
        // table is now keyed to this array.  Exact fields will depend on your DB.
        //
        // Just access it like something like this:

        $id = $row['id'];
        $time = $row['time_stamp'];

   }
}

    to echo it back out as JSON:

    ... // snip
   if ($row)
   {
        header('application/json');
        echo json_encode($row);
        exit;
   }
}
// handle your errors!

    added: Additional error found in OP question:

    //  The following line isn't valid.  This isn't what you'll get back from $.ajax.
//    success: function(patientroom, patientname, eventtyp, timestamp) 

//  Corrected code:
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) 
/* called when request to getevents.php completes */
{
    addevents(data.patientroom, data.patientname, data.eventtyp, data.timestamp);
    setTimeout(
      waitForEvents, /* Request next event */
      1000 /* ..after 1 seconds */                   
    );
},

    Further updates. You mixed & matched the code from above. 

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY eventID DESC LIMIT 1");
if($result)
{
   // this has to go inside of this check.  This is where you *ASSIGN* $row.
   $row =  mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

   // You need to rekey $row before you output:
   $retVal = array('patientroom'=>$row['rumNr'],
                   'patientname'=>$row['inneboendeNamn'],
                   'eventtyp'=>$row['handelse'],
                   'timestamp'=>$row['timestamp']);

   // I'm not sure what you're doing with the incoming timestamp.  Should we just
   // return it back out?
   $retVal['ajax_timestamp'] = $_GET['timeStamp'];

   header('application/json');
   echo json_encode($retVal);
   exit; // this exits. Comment this out if you want, but don't try to write anything else out to the buffer.
}

// Not sure what you're trying to do here.  I'll comment out for now.
/*
$lastmodif = isset($_GET['timeStamp']) ? $_GET['timeStamp'] : 0;
$currentmodif = filemtime($result);

while($currentmodif <= $lastmodif)
{
    unsleepp(1000);
    clearstatcache();
    $currentmodif = filemtime($result);
}
*/

    }

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