create function in php include while loop - php

Question

i have this code to call posts from database
<?php
$q = "SELECT * FROM posts WHERE user_id = '$user_info[id]' ORDER BY id DESC";
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);
while($post_info = mysqli_fetch_assoc($r)) { ?>
//html
it works fine but i like to create a function includes the query and the while loop and move it to functions.php and keep the html code in template.php but I don't know how with the while loop..
function data_post($dbc, $user_info['id']){
$q = "SELECT * FROM posts WHERE user_id = '$user_info[id]' ORDER BY id DESC";
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);
while($post_info = mysqli_fetch_assoc($r))
return $post_info
}
I have tried this but there is no result

Answer 1

function ss()
{
...........
while($post_info = mysqli_fetch_assoc($r))
{
$new_array[]=$post_info;
}
return $new_array;
}
And return the $new_array outside of the while loop
And get the value like this
$mm= ss();
print_r($mm); here you get that $new_array values

Answer 2

Try this:
Function Body
function data_post($dbc, $user_id){
$q = "SELECT * FROM posts WHERE user_id = '$user_id' ORDER BY id DESC";
$r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q);
$arrayPost = array();
while($post_info = mysqli_fetch_assoc($r)){
$arrayPost[] = array('id' => $post_info['postId'], 'name' => $post_info['postName']);
// or whatever data you want to return of post, insert in array
}
return $arrayPost;
}
Function Calling
$userPostArray = data_post($dbc, $user_info['id']);