Search mysql database and create links from result in php and html - php

Question

I am a beginner to PHP. I have a database set up with songs in it. At the moment there are only 2 songs and one artist. I am trying to query the database by artist. The page seems to work but is only returning one song instead of two.
I am calling it like this :
search by artist
What is the correct way to do this?
<?php
// get artist id from page call
$artist = $_GET['artist'];
// search by artist
$exists = $mysqli->query("SELECT id FROM songs WHERE artist='$artist'") or die($mysqli->error);
// get numeric array out of result
$Songs = mysqli_fetch_array($exists, MYSQLI_NUM);
foreach($Songs as $key){
echo "<a href='http://www.waylostreams.com/login-system/playSong.php?id=$key&user=$user_id'>Listen</a>";
print "<br>";
}
?>
Thanks in advance for any help!
Sean

Answer 1

This is an example. You can use this code to select all elements in your table(w3schools) nere the link where explain step by step:
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "myDB";
// Create connection
$conn = newmysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
} 
$sql = "SELECT id, firstname, lastname FROM MyGuests";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "id: " . $row["id"]. " - Name: " . $row["firstname"]. " " . $row["lastname"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();
?>