Organise seats into tablerows in html output with PHP - php

I'm putting together something that's mean to allow for a user to book seats for a cinema showing. The row and seat numbers for every showing are stored in the database. I'm currently extracting them in the following method so that users can click on a seat button to select that seat for their booking:
echo "<form>";
echo "<table>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
$rownum = $row['row'];
$seat = $row['seat'];
echo "<tr><td><button type=\"submit\" name=\"seatsel\" value=\"$rownum$seat\">$rownum$seat</button></td></tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
Right now this just outputs html showing all of the buttons as a single row in the table. I'd like the output to show seating across a single table row for every one of the table rows in the cinema screen. I'm not sure how to do this exactly given that each row is of differing lengths. E.g row A has twelve seats while row C has eight.
What would be the best way of accomplishing this?

You could easily update your code so that you will get a new table row every time the mysql row has another value. One thing to note is that you might want to add (depending on whether you're already sorting your results) the following ORDER BY row,seat.
echo "<form>";
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
if (!isset($oldrownumber)) $oldrownumber = $row['row'];
else if ($oldrownumber != $row['row']) {
echo "</tr><tr>";
$oldrownumber = $row['row'];
}
$rownum = $row['row'];
$seat = $row['seat'];
echo "<td><button type=\"submit\" name=\"seatsel\" value=\"$rownum$seat\">$rownum$seat</button></td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";

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Add check-box to remove from database in for each loop

I'm learning PHP at the moment, started a practice project to make a todo list.
The list allows the user to enter data into the database with an input field, and uses a while and foreach loop to display the data from the database.
I want to add a check-box to each item displayed that allows the user to check what items on the list they'd like to remove, and for the check-box to have a value corresponding to the id column of the item, then I'll add a submit button that will clear the checked items.
The database table I'm using has two columns an auto increment id column, and a description column.
Here's the loop:
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM list_data;";
$list = $mysqli->query($query);
while ($row = $list->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)):
echo "<tr>";
foreach($row as $list_item) {
echo "<td>" . $list_item . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
endwhile;
?>
I tried this:
foreach ($row as $id => $description) {
echo "<td>" . $id . $description . "</td>";
}
But for soeme reason this returns the column name, and the values like so:
id1 descriptionTodo List Item Number One.
id2 descriptionTodo List Item Number Two.
id3 descriptionTodo List Item Number Three.
id5 descriptionTodo List Item Number Four.
Can anyone set me on the right path?
I've got the project uploaded onto github if anyone wants to see the whole lot.
Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.
I don't understand why you are using foreach actually , I would just do this :
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM list_data;";
$list = $mysqli->query($query);
while ($row = $list->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)):
echo "<tr>";
echo"<td><input type='checkbox' value='".$row['id']."'</td> <td>".$row['description']."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
endwhile;
?>

Display data retrieved from MySQL in a rows / tabular form in PHP

I have written some data on MySQL database and would like it to be displayed on the webpage in the form of rows and coloumns.
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr>";
for($i=0; $i<$num_results; $i++) {
echo "<td style=\"width:30%\";>";
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row['bagimage']));
echo "<img src=".htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($row['bagimage'])). " width=\"130px\" height=\"130px\" />";
echo "</strong><br/>Bag Type: ";
echo stripslashes($row['bagtype']);
echo "<br/>Price: ";
echo stripslashes($row['price']);
echo "<br/>Description: ";
echo stripslashes($row['description']);
echo "</p>";
echo "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
echo " </table>";
Now the data displayed here is all in just one row. I want it to display 4 in one row.
Like this
X X X X
X X X X
X X X X
The data consists of Image, price, description and type. which makes one cell of a table.
Now do we need a table here or can this be done in another way? Please help.
Also, The image code is kinda wrong as the image does not really display. Can someone please help me with the coding to be able to display the image correctly? should i be using stripslashes or mysql_real_escape_string instead? or is the entire code wrong?
note: 'bagimage' is the coloumn name for image which is of type longblob.
Thanks
I just got an answer after some research.
just added $results_per_row = 4;
and then inside the loop add this code:
if($i % $results_per_row == 0) {
echo "</tr><tr>"; }
you can also add line break instead of closing table row as per your code requirement.
However, I am still not able to figure out two things.
1) if the results are too many, more than say 100. How do display the results in more than one page or maybe the results will keep appearing as you scroll down using ajax maybe?
2) I am not able to get the images to display. I have tried everything possible.

How to do an HTML 'upward' rowspan

Here is the problem:
I need to know if there is a way to do an upward rowspan on a <th> element on a form.
I am reading some rows inside a DB that I need to put inside an html table.
I am doing something like:
echo "<table>";
while($result = $resultSet->fetch())
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>$result['Name']</td>";
echo "<td>$result['Job']</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
ehco "</table>";
First steps are easy until I needed to 'span' together two adjacent cells that contains the same value.
For exemple if someone have the same name but had two jobs I would like them to have something like :
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td rowspan='2'>$result['Name']</td>";
echo "<td>$result['Job']</td>";
echo "</tr>";
But I can't predict how many jobs someone have (except they all have at least one and that they are all in order).
exemple of record in MySQL table
Name/**/Jobs
Paul/**/Jobs1
Simon/**/Jobs23
Simon/**/Jobs45
Roger/**/Jobs67
(All simon's jobs are 'behind one another', they are grouped. If Paul had a second job it would be the second record in the table 'pushing' simons jobs down).
So I need to change the rowspan value of the first element to fit how many jobs that person have.
This is why I would need to know if it is possible to do a upward span because i could just display every on of them and count how many jobs each person have and do a rowspan that would merge the table cell upward.
It would certainly be easier then fetching every row in the DB then looping throught them all and checking how many jobs a person have to 'span' the cells now and then display them all and then skipping them. and so on.
Thanks
A situation like this calls for pre-processing. Like so:
$people = array();
while($result = $resultSet->fetch())
{
if( !isset($people[$result['Name']])) $people[$result['Name']] = array();
$people[$result['Name']][] = $result['Job'];
}
echo "<table>";
foreach($people as $name=>$jobs)
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td rowspan=\"".count($jobs)."\">".$name."</td>";
echo "<td>".array_shift($jobs)."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
foreach( $jobs as $otherjob)
{
echo "<tr><td>".$otherjob."</td></tr>";
}
}
echo "</table>";
Done!
What you're looking for doesn't exist in HTML. But you can do it like this:
$currName = $result['Name'];
echo "<tr>";
if($currName==$prevName)
{
echo "<td> </td>";
}
else
{
echo "<td>$result['Name']</td>";
}
echo "<td>$result['Job']</td>";
echo "</tr>";
$prevName = $currName;
Rather than using rowspan, just nest a table in the second column with all of the jobs for that person.
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>$result['Name']</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<table>"
foreach($jobs as $job): //$jobs holds the job values for the current name
echo "<tr><td>";
echo $job;
echo "</td></tr>";
endforeach;
echo "</table>";
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
Note: you will need to preprocess the result set to get a 2D array for this method (see answer from Niet the Dark Absol).

PHP If statement, suitable?

I'm working on a small university assignment to build a simple e-commerce engine using PHP for a website.
I currently have the following script setup to display products within a category, all of which are retrieved from a MySQL database.
http://example.com/category.php?id=2
The problem I am currently having is that for each product displayed the script is simply echoing each one side by side into a new table entry. This is causing them to go across the page rather than vertically.
What would be the best way to alter this code to have for example a maximum of three products per row? An If loop or something along those lines? Would appreciate the support!
<?php
//Create Session
session_start();
//Connect to database
include "conn.php";
//Retrieve Header
include "header.php";
//Get Category ID
if (isset($_GET['id'])){
$CategoryID = $_GET['id'];
//QUERY collects product name, and product ID.
$q="SELECT ProductID, ProductName, Price,img FROM Products WHERE CategoryID=$CategoryID";
//QUERY collects Product Category descriptions
$d="SELECT `Desc` FROM ProductCategories WHERE CategoryID=$CategoryID";
//retrive and execute SQL query results and save into a variable
$result = mysqli_query($_SESSION['conn'],$q);
$result2 = mysqli_query($_SESSION['conn'],$d) or die(mysql_error());
//Retrieve Product Category Description
echo "<div>";
while ($myResult = mysqli_fetch_row($result2)){ //Create an array
echo "<p>".$myResult[0]."</p>";
}
echo "</div>";
//Retrieve Products in category
echo "<div align='center'><table border='1px' bordercolor='#000000' width='200px'><tr>"; //Define table, row and div containing each product
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)){ //Create an array
echo "<td>"; //Create table cell
echo "<p><img src=".$row[3]."></p>"; //product image small (250x250 Pixels)
echo "<p align='center'><a href='product.php?id=".$row[0]."'>".$row[1]." </a></p>"; //Product ID Link and Name
echo "<p align='center'>£ ".$row[2]."</p>";
echo "</td>"; //Close table cell
}
echo "</tr></table></div>";//Close table, div and row
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
// Retireve Footer
include "footer.php";
?>
I am new when it comes to programming of any kind, so would appreciate patience/any support you could give me. Also I am aware of the SQL injection problem and will fix this at a later date.
Well you would keep track of your while iterations with a counter then everytime you hit $counter%3 === 0 (replace 3 with whatever you want per row) you would close the tr and start a new one:
$counter = 0;
$perRow = 3;
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)){ //Create an array
if($counter === 0) {
echo '<tr>';
} else if ($counter%$perRow === 0 ) {
echo '</tr><tr>';
}
echo "<td>"; //Create table cell
echo "<p><img src=".$row[3]."></p>"; //product image small (250x250 Pixels)
echo "<p align='center'><a href='product.php?id=".$row[0]."'>".$row[1]." </a></p>"; //Product ID Link and Name
echo "<p align='center'>£ ".$row[2]."</p>";
echo "</td>";
$counter++;
}
Here you go
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)){ //Create an array
echo "<tr><td>"; //Create table cell
echo "<p><img src=".$row[3]."></p>"; //product image small (250x250 Pixels)
echo "<p align='center'><a href='product.php?id=".$row[0]."'>".$row[1]." </a></p>"; //Product ID Link and Name
echo "<p align='center'>£ ".$row[2]."</p>";
echo "</td></tr>"; //Close table cell
}
echo "</table></div>";//Close table, div and row
The TR needs to be inside the while since tr is a row
You can do it the old fashion way with tables and iteration counters. You could also use a more CSS based approach.
Loop your result set, and build the inner HTML part (rows, columns)
$rows = '';
while ($myResult = mysqli_fetch_row($result2)){ //Create an array
$rows .= '<div class="inner">'.$myResult[0].'</div>';
}
Decide on the width of the inner columns x and make them float left or right, And make the outer div width * x
<style type="text/css">
div.box {
width:900px;
}
div.inner {
float:left;
width:300px;
}
</style>
And finally echo your HTML
<div class="box"><?php echo $rows; ?></div>
What you need is to keep track of the position you're at. If you want 3 cols per row it would be something like:
$count = 1;
echo '<table>';
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)) {
$tmp = $count % 3; //get the remainder
if ($tmp==1) {
if ($count!=1) {
//not the first row so close the last one
echo "</tr>";
}
//start row
echo "<tr>";
}
//show your <td> info
$count++;
}
echo '</tr></table>';

Printing data horizontally using php and mysql

I want to print data from the database in a horizontal manner.
I have two table one that holds products names and another that holds products performance by months eg i want data to appear in a table like this
product name,performance by months from january to december
eg
product A,1000 ,2000, etc performance by months
product B,2000,3300, etc performace by months
Edit: I didn't realize you said you have two tables. So the query in my solution should be adapted with a JOIN and ordered, but we cannot dig further into this without knowing your schema. My solution addresses the main concern (i.e. printing results horizontally), provided you obtain two fields to show in two different rows.
Just retrieve your data and store it in a multidimensional array, THEN create the table.
$data = array();
$sql = "SELECT product, performance FROM table";
$rs = mysql_query($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs))
{
$data[] = array($row['product'], $row['performance']);
}
echo "<table><tr>";
// print products in the first line of the table
foreach($data as $d)
{
echo "<td>" . $d[0] . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr><tr>";
// then print performances
foreach($data as $d)
{
echo "<td>" . $d[1] . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr></table>";

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