How to display multiple fetched data? - php

Question

I am using the following to fetch the latest articles from the database:
//Latest Article
$title_query1 = "SELECT title FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
$description_query1 = "SELECT description FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
$content_query1 = "SELECT content FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
$image_query1 = "SELECT image FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";
$title_result1 = mysqli_query($con, $title_query1) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$description_result1 = mysqli_query($con, $description_query1) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$content_result1 = mysqli_query($con, $content_query1) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$image_result1 = mysqli_query($con, $image_query1) or die(mysqli_error($con));
//Second Latest Article
$title_query2 = "SELECT title FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2,1";
$description_query2 = "SELECT description FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2,1";
$content_query2 = "SELECT content FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2,1";
$image_query2 = "SELECT image FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2,1";
$title_result2 = mysqli_query($con, $title_query2) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$description_result2 = mysqli_query($con, $description_query2) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$content_result2 = mysqli_query($con, $content_query2) or die(mysqli_error($con));
$image_result2 = mysqli_query($con, $image_query2) or die(mysqli_error($con));
However, i'm not sure how I can then do something like this:
<h1>Here is the first article: <?php $title_result1 ?><h1>
<h2>Here is the first article description: <?php $description_result1 ?>
<h1>Here is the second article: <?php $title_result2 ?><h1>
<h2>Here is the second article description: <?php $description_result2 ?>
Also, is this method not good? If I am going to do this for 100+ articles, will it cause the web page to load slowly?
Thanks

Answer 1

You do not need to do a single query for each column. You can get all columns for a row by doing select * Also, as mentioned, you can fetch as many rows as you want, and loop through them.
I prefer the while method.. Example, show last 100 articles
// fetch latest 100
$sql = "SELECT * FROM articles ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 100";
if ($result = mysqli_query($con, $sql)){
// got results, convert result object to array called $row
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
// echo out $row array elements with
//the column names from the database as array index
echo '<h2>'. $row['title'] .'</h2>'; // example wrap results with HTML
echo '<b>' .$row['description'] .'</b>';
echo $row['content'];
echo <img src="'. $row['image'] .'" title="'.$row['description'].'">';
echo '<br>'; //so next result is on new line
} // end of while loop
} else {
//no result, error
}