Question

I had a task to slide images from a mysql database using jquery slide and not the animation scripts. The slide is supposed to show at least the most recent ten images that was uploaded. With that I first of all wrote a random query

mysql_query("select * from tblname order by rand() limit 1);

But as expected, it picks the images at random irrespective of when it was posted and of course it wasn’t the most recent ten. After some thought I now had to first run a query to get the most recent ten

mysql_query("select * from tblname order by ID limit 10);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sql){
    $slideid=$slideid.",".$row['recordid'];
}

this of course results to a variable of this order

$var="23,22,24,34,27,78,56,87,98,55";

I tried handling it like an array but it wasn’t giving any positive result, hence I had an issue of how to pick this numbers and use it for the slide

Answer 1

Based on your comments I will offer my 2p into the mix

this is what I did $slideid=”23,22,24,34,27,78,56,87,98,55″; $arr =
explode(‘,’,$slideid); foreach ($arr as $val) { //lets get the
variables from the form post $rs = mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM tblname
WHERE id=’$val'”) or die(mysql_error());
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($rs)){ echo “<img src=’image/$image’>”; }
} the images are displayed one by one using jquery slide

Now I think we are wasting time dealing with exploding this variable because mysql has the nifty IN() function (possibly in other db’s I don’t know)

$slideid = "23,22,24,34,27,78,56,87,98,55";
$rs = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblname WHERE id IN({$slideid})") or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs))
{
    echo "<img src='image/{$row['image']}' />";
}

I hope this helps