Run php action for every element - php

Question

I have a php script which retrieves data from mysql db.
Everything works fine, but my problem is that this $result = $dao->joinedEvents($userId); returns an array of numbers and what I would like to do is to run this $secondResult = $dao->joinedEventsInfo($receivedIds); for every ID and this script I'm using right now returns data only for one ID.
This is part of my php script:
$userId = htmlentities($_REQUEST["userId"]);
$result = $dao->joinedEvents($userId); //This is getting the IDs array
if(!empty($result)) {
$receivedIds = $result["event_id"];
$ids = explode(",", $receivedIds);
foreach($ids as $id){
$secondResult = $dao->joinedEventsInfo($id);
if(!empty($secondResult)) {
$returnValue["finalResult"][] = $secondResult;
} else {
$returnValue["status"] = "error";
$returnValue["message"][] = "Could not find records for id" . $id;
}
}
} else {
$returnValue["status"] = "Empty error";
$returnValue["message"] = "Could not find records";
}
$dao->closeConnection();
echo json_encode($returnValue);
And this is joinedEvents script:
public function joinedEvents($userId){
$returnValue = array();
$sql = "SELECT event_id from MyTable WHERE userId= '$userId' LIMIT 0 , 30";
$statement = $this->conn->prepare($sql);
if (!$statement)
throw new Exception($statement->error);
$statement->execute();
$result = $statement->get_result();
while ($myrow = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$returnValue[] = $myrow;
}
return $returnValue;
}
This is joinedEventsInfo script:
public function joinedEventsInfo($eventId){
$returnValue = array();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Events WHERE eventId = '$eventId' LIMIT 0 , 30";
$statement = $this->conn->prepare($sql);
if (!$statement)
throw new Exception($statement->error);
$statement->execute();
$result = $statement->get_result();
while ($myrow = $result->fetch_assoc())
{
$returnValue[] = $myrow;
}
return $returnValue;
}
Edit: Tha reason I need this is that I have two tables. In the first one I have just IDs and in the second one I have info. So first I need to get the IDs and then I need to get data for every ID I have just received.
Thank you very much , I'm totally stuck.

Answer 1

Based on the updated code snippets and the discussion below, it is found that $result is indeed an array, and the solution is:
$userId = htmlentities($_REQUEST["userId"]);
$result = $dao->joinedEvents($userId);
if(count($result)){
foreach($result as $array){
$event_id = $array['event_id'];
$secondResult = $dao->joinedEventsInfo($event_id);
if(!empty($secondResult)) {
$returnValue["finalResult"][] = $secondResult;
} else {
$returnValue["status"] = "error";
$returnValue["message"][] = "Could not find records for id: " . $event_id;
}
}
}else {
$returnValue["status"] = "Empty error";
$returnValue["message"] = "Could not find records";
}
$dao->closeConnection();
echo json_encode($returnValue);

Answer 2

Have you tried array_map()?
That would allow you to call a php function on each member of an array easily.
Another way would be to use the common while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) which would execute the code in the while loop for each row of your returned results. Note, you will likely have to change the mysql_fetch_array to something specific for your SQL connection.