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I'm trying to assign the value of $data['id'] to a variable like this:
$totalfor = $data['id'];
but this is not working, the value is not passing to $totalfor
If i echo $data['id'], it gives the right value which is 85
i need the value of $data['id'] to use it into a Select query
Anyone know the correct syntax to achieve this ?
Thanks
Here is the code:
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$dbname = "test";
$jury = get_active_user('accountname');
$totalfor = $data['id'];
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT total AS total FROM votestepone WHERE votefor = '$totalfor' AND votedby= '$jury'";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$totalvote = $row["total"];
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
?>
<?php echo $totalvote; ?>
The error is : Undefined variable: totalvote
If i set
$totalfor = 85; --> it works
but i need to use the value coming from $data['id'];
I'm in a view page and $data['id'] is coming from:
$data = $this->view_data;
if I <?php echo $data['id']; ?> it show 85

Answer 1

mysqli_query returns false when there is an error not if there are no results. The error says $totalvote is undefined, not $totalfor so the query didn't find a single result.
var_dump($sql) and make sure the query is correct and it really does fetch a result row when run against your database.