Question

The code is:

<?php

// my query

if (isset($_GET['ssiptype']))
{
    if (($_GET['ssiptype']) == 'gma'){
        $query = "SELECT location, year, serviceArea, noOfBenificiaries, stat, fundingSrc, projCost 
            FROM swipdd
            WHERE fundingSrc LIKE 'GMA-Rice%' AND ssiptype = 'SWIP'" ;
    }
    elseif (($_GET['ssiptype']) == 'am'){
        $query = "SELECT location, year, serviceArea, noOfBenificiaries, stat, fundingSrc, projCost 
            FROM swipdd
            WHERE fundingSrc LIKE 'AM-Rice%' AND ssiptype = 'SWIP'" ;
    }
    elseif (($_GET['ssiptype']) == 'hvcccred'){
        $query = "SELECT location, year, serviceArea, noOfBenificiaries, stat, fundingSrc, projCost 
            FROM swipdd
            WHERE fundingSrc LIKE 'HVCC RED%' AND ssiptype = 'SWIP'" ;
    }
    elseif (($_GET['ssiptype']) == 'hvcc'){
        $query = "SELECT location, year, serviceArea, noOfBenificiaries, stat, fundingSrc, projCost 
            FROM swipdd
            WHERE fundingSrc LIKE 'HVCC%' AND ssiptype = 'SWIP'" ;
    }
    else{}
}
// output

if (isset($query))
{
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); 

  echo "<table border='1' cellpadding='3'>";
  echo "<tr> 
            <td bgcolor=\"#DFE8EC\">LOCATION</td>
            <td bgcolor=\"#DFE8EC\">YEAR</td>
            <td bgcolor=\"#DFE8EC\">STATUS</td>
        </tr>";
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {

  $final_result = array_unique($row);

    echo "<tr>";
    echo '<td>' . $row['location'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['year'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td>' . $row['stat'] . '</td>';
    echo "</tr>"; 
  } 
  echo "</table>";
}
?>

My desired output is as follows:

//dummy data
LOCATION    YEAR   STATUS
---------------------------
park         1999   ok
----------------------------
sea          2000   fine
----------------------------

I’m getting this output:

LOCATION    YEAR   STATUS
----------------------------
park         1999   ok
----------------------------
sea          2000   fine
----------------------------
park         1999   ok
----------------------------
sea          2000   fine
----------------------------
park         1999   ok
----------------------------
sea          2000   fine
----------------------------

It is repeating twice. What is wrong in my code? Please, any help will be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

1. only select the columns you need.
2. In order to not get multiple entires you need som kind of additional qualifier. Im going to assume you want the most recent year to display so what we can do is use GROUP BY to select distinct locations, and ORDER BY to get the most recent year to display
3. The code is ugly… you keep repeating the same SQL when you can jsut replace the part that changes.

So putting it all together

<?php 

$fundingSrcs = array(
  'gma' => 'GMA-Rice%',
  /* repeat for your other options */
);
$sql = "SELECT location, year, stat 
       FROM swipdd
       WHERE fundingSrc LIKE %s AND ssiptype = 'SWIP'
       ORDER BY year DESC
       GROUP BY location";

$result = false; // initialize as a default of false

if(isset($_GET['ssiptype']) {
   $ssitype = $_GET['ssiptype'];
   if(isset($fundingSrcs[$ssitype]) {

      // substitute the db quoted string for the %s
      $query = sprintf($sql, mysql_real_escape_string($fundingSrcs[$ssitype]));
      $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
   }
}
?>

<?php if($result && mysql_num_rows($result)): ?>
  <table border='1' cellpadding='3'>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th bgcolor="#DFE8EC">LOCATION</th>
        <th bgcolor="#DFE8EC">YEAR</th>
        <th bgcolor="#DFE8EC">STATUS</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    <?php while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)): ?>
      <tr>
        <td><?php echo $row['location'] ?></td>
        <td><?php echo $row['year'] ?></td>
        <td><?php echo $row['stat'] ?></td>
      </tr>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    </tbody>
  </table>
<?php else if($err = mysql_error()): ?>
  <p>There was an error executing this request.</p>
<?php else: ?>
  <p>No matching entries found</p>
<?php endif; ?>