Question

OK so I have a php include that houses some queries and want to be able to call them when needed by just running a function. When running the function I am not getting the query returned. Not sure if I need to use a return(); in the include or not.

<?php
// include file with queries
function displayQueryOne(){
$q = "SELECT * FROM culturegrams.new_to WHERE edition = '$url' ORDER BY placement ASC";     
$results= mysql_query($q) or die('could not run Query '.mysql_error());
return($results);

}
?>


<?php
//PAGE # 2 page to display query results
require('queryfile.php');

//running function from the include file
$results = displayQueryOne()

//running indpendent php while loop that will generate hmtl



    while ($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)){

?>

    <div class="top_menu"><p class="menu_text"><?php echo $r['title'];?></p></div>
    <div class="mid_menu">      
        <p class="explore_text">
            <?php echo $r['text'];?>
        </p>
    </div>

Answer 1

Yes you need to make it return like so

function displayQueryOne(){
  $q = "SELECT * FROM culturegrams.new_to WHERE edition = '$url' ORDER BY placement ASC";     
  $results= mysql_query($q) or die('could not run Query '.mysql_error());
  return $results;
}

Then you need to call it like this

$results = displayQueryOne();