Question

I want to display the data per user.
But it displays all the data per table and per users.
So what I am trying to achieve is display all the data on the table for that user
here is my code

<?php foreach ($employee as $emp) { ?>

  <table id="employee-content">
     <h3 class="color-orange"><?php echo $emp['members']['username']; ?></h3>
        <tr>
          <td><p class="personal-management-content"><?php echo $emp['posts']['title']; ?></p></td>
          <td><p class="personal-management-content padding-left50" class="padding-left50"><?php echo $emp['posts']['title']; ?></p></td>
          <td><p class="personal-management-content padding-left50" class="padding-left50"><?php echo $emp['posts']['deadline']; ?></p></td>
        </tr>

<?php } ?>'

here is the sql query for $employee

* on controller 
   public function employee_management() {
        $posts = $this->Post->getPostByMember();
        $this->set("employee", $posts);
    }

* on model
    public function getPostByMember() {
        $post = "SELECT username, content, deadline, title FROM members INNER JOIN posts ON posts.member_id=members.id";
//        debug($user);
        $con = $this->getDataSource();
        $get = $con->fetchAll($post);
//        debug($get);
        return $get;
    }

and the print_r $employee

Array (
 [0] => Array (
   [members] => Array (
     [username] => admin )
   [posts] => Array (
     [content] => asdsadsad
     [deadline] => 2012-06-01
     [title] => sad ) ) 
 [1] => Array (
   [members] => Array (
     [username] => admin )
   [posts] => Array (
     [content] => asd
     [deadline] => 2012-06-20
     [title] => sad ) ) 
 [2] => Array (
   [members] => Array (
     [username] => admin )
   [posts] => Array (
     [content] => dasdw2
     [deadline] => 2012-06-19
     [title] => sdas ) ) 
 [3] => Array (
   [members] => Array (
     [username] => guest )
   [posts] => Array (
     [content] => s
     [deadline] => 2012-06-08
     [title] => wara ) )

the output is
sample screen shot
http://i46.tinypic.com/209n56s.jpg

so what I want to achieve is
for example the user “admin” all his titles, descriptions, deadlines will show on the single box or the .
And so goes to the other users.

please help thanks in advance

Answer 1

So… It looks like your database results are currently structured like this:

• result 1
  • username 1
  • post
• result 2
  • username 1
  • post
• result 3
  • username 2

etc. And you want your display to look like:

• username 1
  • post
  • post
• username 2
  • post

It seems to me that the easiest way to achieve what you want is to create a new array from the results of your SELECT.

<?php

$posts_by_emp=array();
foreach ($employee as $emp) {
  $posts_by_emp[$emp['members']['username']][]=array(
    'title' => $emp['posts']['title'];
    'descr' => $emp['posts']['title'];
    'deadline' => $emp['posts']['deadline']
  );
}

$hfmt = "<tr>\n    <th colspan='3' class='color-orange'>%s</th>\n  </tr>";
$bfmt = "<tr>\n"
      . "    <td class='personal-management-content'>%s</td>\n"
      . "    <td class='personal-management-content padding-left50'>%s</td>\n"
      . "    <td class='personal-management-content padding-left50'>%s</td>\n"
      . "  </tr>";

print "  <table id='employee-content'>";
foreach ($posts_by_emp as $username => $items) {
  // Print header
  printf($hfmt, $username);
  foreach ($items as $item) {
    // Print post
    printf($bfmt, $item['title'], $item['descr'], $item['deadline']);
  }
}
print "</table>\n";

This is of course untested, because I don’t have your data. Depending on the structure of your database, you might be able to do this with less PHP by making a different SQL query that could be parsed more easily.