How to insert a search result into a table using php? - php

Question

This is the code that I've got to search and it just appears next to each other. Can I put html within php and how would this be done? Or should I make a table below the form?
<?php
include ('database_conn.php');
$output = '';
if(isset($_POST['search'])) {
$search = $_POST['search'];
$search = preg_replace("#[^0-9a-z]i#","", $search);
$query = mysqli_query($conn, "SELECT * FROM attendance WHERE stud_id LIKE '%$search%'") or die ("Could not search");
$count = mysqli_num_rows($query);
if($count == 0){
$output = "There was no search results!";
}else{
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query)) {
$stud_id = $row ['stud_id'];
$module = $row ['module'];
$attendance_status = $row ['attendance_status'];
$output .='<div> '.$stud_id.''.$module.''.$attendance_status.'</div>';
}
}
}
?>
This is the form that I've got in the HTML to search
<form action ="CM0671_attendance.php" method = "post">
<input name="search" type="text" size="30" placeholder="Student ID"/>
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" value="Search"/>
</form>

Answer 1

Replace your while with this:
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>ID</th>";
echo "<th>Module</th>";
echo "<th>Status</th>";
echo "</tr>";
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query)) {
$stud_id = $row ['stud_id'];
$module = $row ['module'];
$attendance_status = $row ['attendance_status'];
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>{$stud_id}</td>";
echo "<td>{$module}</td>";
echo "<td>{$attendance_status}</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table><br>";