Question

I want to run a query that gets all the data from a database then have the data split into arrays for each column. With this I intend to dynamically populate html. I am not very experienced with php and could use some assistance with how to put my query into multiple arrays depending on what column it was in.

Example: For the column name I want an array $itemName[] and it will contain every item name in asc order. Then for the image column I want an array $itemImage[] for every image/image url in the same order.

With this I plan to run a for loop where as x increases it will go through each diff array and pull from the specified location. There are no null values in my DB so I don’t need to worry about that.

Any help you can give me with the writing the query into multiple arrays based on the column name is appreciated.

    $mPos = array(mPos1, mPos2, mPos3, mPos4);

    for (x=0; x<4; x++){

    echo "<div class="$mPos[x]"> <div class="$mPos[x] . '_1'">"$title[x]"</div><div class="$mPos1 . '_2'">"$image[x]"</div>

Answer 1

Still doesn’t make sense for me to separate it that way, but here you go.

Since you didn’t provide a database/table structure, I will assume your db table got the following columns:

itemId | itemName | itemImage | itemDescription

In PHP you loop through the result row for row and populate your arrays like

foreach ( $result AS $row ) {
  $itemNames[$row->itemId] = $row->itemName;
  $itemImages[$row->itemId] = $row->itemImage;
  $itemDescriptions[$row->itemId] = $row->itemDescription;
}

EDIT: After question was updated and now includes the HTML output, I’d suggest something like this.

foreach ( $result AS $row ) {
  $items[$row->itemId] = array(
    'name' => $row->itemName,
    'image' => $row->itemImage,
    'description' => $row->itemDescription,
    'price' => $row->itemPrice,
    'link' => $row->itemLink,
  );
}
$x = 0;
while ($x<4) {
  $x++;
  $item = array_shift($items);
  echo '<div class="mPos'.$x.'"> 
    <div class="mPos'.$x.'_1">"'.$item['name'].'"</div>
    <div class="mPos'.$x.'_2">"'.$item['price'].'"</div>
    <div class="mPos'.$x.'_3"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">
      <img src="'.$item['image'].'" /></a>
    </div>
  </div>';
}