Output is array, how to fix this? - php

Question

Right now I am selecting some data from Mysql which I want to echo out, but I don't know how..
Code
<?php
// Database connection
require_once($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/includes/config.php");
require_once($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/includes/opendb.php");
// News 1
$searchroutenews1 = "SELECT newsid FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '1'";
$handlenews1 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenews1);
$news1 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenews1);
$searchroutenewsimg1 = "SELECT newsimg FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '1'";
$handlenewsimg1 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenewsimg1);
$NewsImg1 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenewsimg1);
// News 2
$searchroutenews2 = "SELECT newsid FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '2'";
$handlenews2 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenews2);
$news2 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenews2);
$searchroutenewsimg2 = "SELECT newsimg FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '2'";
$handlenewsimg2 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenewsimg2);
$NewsImg2 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenewsimg2);
// News 3
$searchroutenews3 = "SELECT newsid FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '3'";
$handlenews3 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenews3);
$news3 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenews3);
$searchroutenewsimg3 = "SELECT newsimg FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id = '3'";
$handlenewsimg3 = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], $searchroutenewsimg3);
$NewsImg3 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenewsimg3);
?>
After this I require_once this in an other file, and then I echo the variables $news1, $news2, $news3, $NewsImg1, $NewsImg2 and $NewsImg3. But if I echo this variables out now it says: array.

Answer 1

You can fetch all this information via a single query, instead of the 6 you currently are running. Then it's a matter of putting mysqli_fetch_*() as the argument of a while, as you'll then fetch all the rows, until that function returns null - at which point you've fetched all the rows returned by the query.
$result = mysqli_query($GLOBALS["___mysqli_ston"], "SELECT newsid, newsimg FROM NewsHomepage WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3)");
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo $row['newsid']." ".$row['newsimg'];
}
Change however you need it to be displayed inside the while loop, and use the two variables as they are inside.
Alternatively, you can use WHERE id BETWEEN 1 AND 3 instead, but using IN (1, 2, 3) can more easily be changed to the exact ids you need.
http://php.net/mysqli-result.fetch-assoc

Answer 2

First you should read http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-row.php
you can find there mysqli_result::fetch_row -- mysqli_fetch_row — Get a result row as an enumerated array mysqli_fetch_row always return array so now you can't echo array thats why it gives you array.
You can try foreach loop or for loop or while loop to display your data. there are also various methods to get array value.
Below is an example you can use.
while ($news1 = mysqli_fetch_row($handlenews1)) {
echo $news1[0];
}