Question

I generated a random monster team from a table, and limited by 6. Now, I also want to insert the team into user_team which contains the fields
m1,m2,m3,m4,m5,m6

Those represent Monster 1 to Monster 6. Now when I try to insert the generated monsters into the team, only the last Monster seems to be inserting into it while I all of my monsters to be inserted.
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$sql = "SELECT * from monsterdata ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 6"; 
$result = mysql_query($sql);
// this checks if you have a result
if ($result == null) echo "No result";
else {  
    while (($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) != false) {
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
{
// html code here
}
}

the Insert statement is
$monster = $row['id'];
$sql = "INSERT into user_team(m1,m2,m3,m4,m5,m6) VALUES('$monster','$monster','$monster','$monster','$monster','$monster')";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

Just don’t know where/how to place it so it inserts the right values into the right columns.

Answer 1

If it were me, I would push the ids into an array and then use that like so:

$monsterIds = array();
while(($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) !== false) {
    $monsterIds[] = $row['id'];
}
mysql_query("INSERT INTO user_team (m1, m2, m3, m4, m5, m6) VALUES ('{$monsterIds[0]}', '{$monsterIds[2]}', '{$monsterIds[3]}', '{$monsterIds[4]}', '{$monsterIds[5]}')") or die(mysql_error());

Also, don’t forget to use the triple equals when comparing row results so that you don’t get caught by a weird bug where things evaluate to false that aren’t actually false (=== is the way to go with many functions which might return either an array, integer, or a boolean depending on the outcome).

The values will be placed in the columns in the order they are supplied.