Question

I have two tables
First one is categories and second one is products.
Categories table contains cat_id, cat_name, Cat_desc.
Products table contains product_id, product_name, Product_desc and cat_id

I want to display all categories as heading and list only 4 related products under each category heading.

For Eg:

Category1
 Product 1, Product 2, product 3


Category 2
  Product 4, product 5

How can I script this. I am newbie pls help

Answer 1

OK i think this is ok with your question. try this…

$sql = "SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM  categories ";
$query = mysql_query($sql);
while($result = mysql_fetch_array($query)){
   echo $result['cat_name'];
   $sql1 = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE cat_id=".$result['cat_id'];
   $query1 = mysql_query($sql1);
   while($row  = mysql_fetch_array($query1)){
      echo $row['product_name'];
   }
}

AND refer this http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php