Question

So, I have a database table with the following fields: title, date, text, file1, file2, file3, file4, file5. I use it to store news and occasionally, the title of files related to the news. The problem is that different news have a different number of files, ranging from 0 to 5. Now, how can I post the link to the exact number of files every news contain? I tried something like this but it didn’t work:

$query="SELECT * FROM news WHERE id=1";

$result=mysql_query($query);

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))

{

extract($row);

for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++)

    if($"file".$i!="")?>

    <p><a href="/admin/uploads/<?php echo $"file".$i?>"><?php echo $"file".$i?></a></p>

}

Answer 1

I think this is what you want:

for($i=1;$i<=5;$i++) {
    $sfile = $row["file$i"];
    if($sfile != "") {
?>
        <p><a href="/admin/uploads/<?php echo $sfile?>"><?php echo $sfile?></a></p>
<?php
    }
}