Codeigniter: Display multiple columns from database as one - php

Question

I wanted to display multiple column values from my database.
Using the query from model
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('projectskillslist ps');
$this->db->join('empskillslist s', 's.skillsID = ps.skillsID', 'left');
$this->db->join('projects p', 'p.projectID = ps.projectID', 'left');
$this->db->where('ps.projectID = 1');
$query = $this->db->get();
$result = $query->result_array();
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
return $result;
}
return false;
And in my controller
$data['pSkills'] = $this->emp_model->view_projskills();
The query returns perfectly as expected:
Now in my view,
I wanted to call
Title: Project 1
SkillName: JAVA, PHP
So far, I have done this:
foreach ($pSkills as $data) {
echo $data['title'];
echo $data['skillName'];
}
And the result I am getting is
Title: Project 1
Skills: PHP
Title: Project 2
Skills: JAVA
It is a silly question indeed, I have already looked up and search for the same problem but I still no luck. I hope you can help me. Thank you so much!!

Answer 1

Try this, but first order the result set by Project ID and Skill ID.
$this->db->order_by('projectID, skillID');
view
$lastProjectID = 0;
$p_skills = '';
$p_title = '';
foreach ($pSkills as $data) {
if ($data['projectID'] !== $lastProjectID) {
// if there's a title, printIt()
if ($p_title !== '') {
printIt($p_title, $p_skills);
}
// set new title and skill list
$p_title = $data['title'];
$p_skills = $data['skillName'];
// remember last project
$lastProjectID = $data['projectID'];
} else {
// append skill name to skills
$p_skills .= ", " . $data['skillName'];
}
}
// end of foreach, if there's a title, printIt()
if ($p_title !== '') {
printIt($p_title, $p_skills);
}
function printIt($title, $skills) {
echo "Title: $title<br>";
echo "SkillName: $skills<br>";
}

Answer 2

Follow these step if it would can help..
Step 1: You have to concatenate projectID where GROUP_CONCAT will help.
Step 2. Perform your SQL query like below
SELECT projectID, skillName, GROUP_CONCAT(projectID) AS projid FROM
projectskillslist GROUP BY projid
Step 3: To display it in a view , you can use PHP's explode() and iterate over that, like this if it would help..
foreach ($pSkills as $row) {
echo $row->title;
echo explode(',', $row->skillName);
/*
or add below line of code if it doesn't works
*/
//echo str_replace(',', '<br />', $row->skillName);
}