Question

I have 2 tables in My database and I wanted a PHP output of the following, how can I do this?

Latest 5 Catname1 Images
image42.jpg, image45.jpg ect ect

Latest 5 Catname2 Images
image41.jpg, image44.jpg ect ect

Latest 5 Catname3 Images
image43.jpg, image46.jpg ect ect

I have 2 tables in mysqly layed out like this:

imagedb (MySql Table name)
iid,iname,icat,idesc,itags,ithumb
41,Name41,2,desc41,tag41,image41.jpg
42,Name42,1,desc42,tag42,image42.jpg
43,Name43,3,desc43,tag43,image43.jpg
44,Name44,1,desc44,tag44,image44.jpg
45,Name45,2,desc45,tag45,image45.jpg
46,Name46,3,desc46,tag46,image46.jpg
Ect ect

categories (MySql Table name)
cid,cname,cdesc,ctags
1,catname1,catdesc1,cattags1
2,catname2,catdesc2,cattags2
3,catname3,catdesc3,cattags3

Hope this makes sense. Thank you…

Answer 1

The simplest thing to do would be to create a loop in PHP that fetches the last 5 images from the imagedb table based on each category you want to use.

$categories = mysql_query("SELECT cid, cname FROM categories");
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($categories)){
    echo "<strong>Latest 5 " . $row['cname'] . " Images</strong>";
    $image_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM imagedb WHERE cid = " . $row['cid'] . " ORDER BY iid DESC LIMIT 5;");
    $images = array();
    while($image = mysql_fetch_assoc($image_query))
        $images[]  = $image['iname']; // change this to $image['ithumb'] etc for different fields

    echo '<p>' . implode(', ', $images) . '</p>';
}

That will print pretty closely what you have entered there, (assuming the ID of each image indicates when it was inserted (higher means newer).

There are probably cleaner ways of doing this, and depending on your implementation you might need to loop once to get the data then again to print it, however this should give you a good headstart.