Question

I have a table like this in mysql called links_tbl which has 5 rows of data

ID,  LINKurl      LINKname

1   google.com     GOOGLE
2
3
4
5

By using php i want to echo out the 5 lines onto a html page as a link something like this:

echo "<li> <a href=$linkurl></a>$LINKname</li>"

What I am having problem with this is that I cannot understand how to get all the LINKurl and LINKname rows from the table to echo them out in the list.

Can anyboby help me out with the coding?

Answer 1

This should work:

//Database Settings
$host = "sql.yourserver.com";
$user = "username";
$pass = "password";
$dbnm = "database_name";

//Connect to Database
$conn = mysql_connect ($host, $user, $pass);
if ($conn) {
$db= mysql_select_db ($dbnm);
if (!$db) {
    die ("Database Not Found"); 
}
} else {
    notify("Fatal Error. Can not connect to Database", ""); 
}

//Form Query
$query =  "SELECT * FROM `links_tbl`";

//Fetch Results
$data = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

//Start UL
echo "<ul>\n"

//Loop through results
 while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
 { 
      //echo the list item
      echo "<li><a href=".$info['LINKurl'].">".$info['LINKname']."</a></li>\n";  
 }

//End UL
echo "</ul>\n"

Keep in mind you need to close the <a> tag AFTER you output the name.