Question

I’m just learning PHP and I’ve searched for a while on this, but I’m afraid I may not know exactly how to ask it, so an explanation will probably work best. Basically I have a group by/count query returning 3 records.

Status    Total
  0         2
  1         3
  2         2

On my page I would like to display:

Status          Total
 Dev             2
 Active          3
 Arch            2

So I basically just want to assign the values 0, 1 and 2 to a text value. I’ve tried creating an array, then assigning the return number field equal to the array.

$_status = array(0 => 'Development', 1 => 'Production', 2 => 'Archive');

while($rowStat = mysql_fetch_assoc($resDev))
{
    echo "<tr><td>$_status[$rowStat['status']]</td><td>{$rowStat['devprojects']}</td></tr>";
};

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t really like using the 0, 1, 2 to represent a named value (unless you have a relational) table in your DB… but using your setup, why not just use:

while($rowStat = mysql_fetch_assoc($resDev)){
    switch($rowStat['Status']){
        case 0:
            echo "<tr><td>Development</td><td>{$rowStat['devprojects']}</td></tr>";
        break;
        case 1:
            echo "<tr><td>Production</td><td>{$rowStat['devprojects']}</td></tr>";
        break;
        case 2:
            echo "<tr><td>Archive</td><td>{$rowStat['devprojects']}</td></tr>";
        break;
    }
};

EDIT

Some people really are looking for copy-paste answers so here’s an updated answer because Sgt. Crashspeeder of the Massively Anal Society got her knickers in a twist.

Create a lookup array to reference against the status Ids:

$statusArray[0] = 'Development;
$statusArray[1] = 'Production;
$statusArray[2] = 'Archive;

Then when you’re running your mysql_fetch_assoc() loop, you can reference the statusArray lookup like so:

while($rowStat = mysql_fetch_assoc($resDev)){
    echo "<tr><td>{$statusArray[$rowStat['Status']]}</td><td>{$rowStat['devprojects']}</td></tr>";
}