how to display / Select a MYSQL query horizontally - php

Question

I am currently extracting some timetable information from my database.
I am facing a problem that I need the rows in cols and cols in rows.
The query is as:
SELECT `courses`.`course_id`,`faculty`.`uName`,`rooms`.`room_name`,`slot_allocs`.`slot_num`
FROM `faculty`
LEFT JOIN `courses` ON `courses`.`fac_id` = `faculty`.`uName`
LEFT JOIN `depts` ON `faculty`.`dept_code` = `depts`.`dept_code`
LEFT JOIN `slot_allocs` ON `slot_allocs`.`course_id` = `courses`.`course_id`
LEFT JOIN `rooms` ON `slot_allocs`.`room` = `rooms`.`room_name`
LEFT JOIN `slots` ON `slot_allocs`.`table_name` = `slots`.`table_name` AND `slot_allocs`.`day` = `slots`.`day` AND `slot_allocs`.`slot_num` = `slots`.`slot_num`
WHERE `slot_allocs`.`day` = 1 AND `depts`.`dept_code` = 100
ORDER BY `slots`.`slot_num` ASC
After I execute my PHP file in which this query executes it's in a sequential retrieve and show, I would like to have the output -- > one after the another
> > **I want to align in the sequential manner of the period per day like this:
> >|---------------------------------------------
> >day 1| period 1 |period 2 |period 3 |period 4|
> >|----|----------|---------|---------|--------|
> >day 2| period 1 |period 2 |period 3 |period 4|
> >|---------------------------------------------
And this is my php code:
$sql = file_get_contents("eboard.sql");
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>";
echo " Course: ID ". $row["course_id"]." : ";
echo " Prof.:". $row["uName"]." : ";
echo " Room :".$row["room_name"]." : ";
echo " period".$row["slot_num"]."";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
} else
echo "0 results";
$conn->close();
The output i get : ---
Please help !!

Answer 1

Move the <table> out of the loop:
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
echo "<table>";
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>";
echo " Course: ID ". $row["course_id"]." : ";
echo " Prof.:". $row["uName"]." : ";
echo " Room :".$row["room_name"]." : ";
echo " period".$row["slot_num"]."";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();

Answer 2

Ok, So this code should do it. You should read up on how tables works. W3Schools have a simple page about it. I hope this version is what you want. It is not a full solution but it shows you how to use tables.
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
echo "<table>";
echo " <tr>";
echo " <th>Course</th>";
echo " <th>Prof.</th>";
echo " <th>Room</th>";
echo " <th>Period</th>";
echo " </tr>";
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo " <tr>";
echo " <td>Course: ID ". $row["course_id"]."</td>";
echo " <td>Prof.:". $row["uName"]."</td>";
echo " <td>Room :".$row["room_name"]."</td>";
echo " <td>period".$row["slot_num"]."</td>";
echo " </tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
} else {
echo "0 results";
}