PHP Array select result from other array - php

Question

I have a sql table with some category, i get them in a array.. all fine but when i try to get data from another table foreach category, always return me for first category selected.
This is my code:
$gameguidecategoryes = array();
$gameguides = array();
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes = new DB_MSSQL;
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes->Database=$newweb_db;
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes->query("Select GameGuideCatNr,GameGuideCatName_$languageid as GameGuideCatName,GameGuideCatImage from GameGuide_Category where GameGuideCatVisible = 1 order by GameGuideCatOrder asc");
for($i=0;$i < $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->num_rows();++$i) {
if ($dbselectgameguidecategoryes->next_record()){
$GameGuideCatNr = $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatNr');
$GameGuideCatName = $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatName');
$GameGuideCatImage = $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatImage');
}
$gameguidecategoryes_temp = array(
'ggcname' => $GameGuideCatName,
'ggcimg' => $GameGuideCatImage,
);
$gameguidecategoryes[$i] = $gameguidecategoryes_temp;
$dbselectgameguide = new DB_MSSQL;
$dbselectgameguide->Database=$newweb_db;
$dbselectgameguide->query("Select GameGuideID,GameGuideName_$languageid as GameGuideName from GameGuide_Content where GameGuideCat = $GameGuideCatNr and GameGuideVisible = 1 order by GameGuideOrder asc");
for($ii=0;$ii < $dbselectgameguide->num_rows();++$ii) {
if ($dbselectgameguide->next_record()){
$GameGuideID = $dbselectgameguide->f('GameGuideID');
$GameGuideName = $dbselectgameguide->f('GameGuideName');
}
$gameguides_temp = array(
'ggid' => $GameGuideID,
'ggn' => $GameGuideName,
);
$gameguides[$ii] = $gameguides_temp;
}
}
Why $gameguides return data only from first category?
Thank you

Answer 1

Your second loop keeps getting trashed by the first loop. e.g. Consider what happens:
You fetch your categories, and (let's pretend) there's 4 of them.
You store some information in $gameguidecategoryes[0]
You run the second query, get some content for category #0, say, 3 records
That gets stored in $gameguides[0], [1], [2]
Your outer loop ticks again, and you start on categoryes[1]
The inner loop ticks again, you get 4 records, and now you're storing them into the SAME again: $gameguides[0], [1], [2], [3], etc...
You've now trashed the data you fetched in the first loop, and will
do so for every category you fetch.
This code is very inefficient. You should learn how to use JOINs, and fetch into a single structure, e.g.
SELECT category.id, category.name, ...., content.id, content.name
FROM categories
LEFT JOIN content ON categories.id = content.category_id
ORDER BY ...
and then something like
$data = array();
while($row = fetch row from db) {
if (!isset($data[$row['category.id']]) {
$data[$row['category.id']] = array(
'name' => $row['category.name'],
'content' => array()
);
}
$data[$row['category.id']]['content'][] = array(
... save content data here
);
};

Answer 2

Better work on clean code
$gameguidecategoryes = $gameguides = $gameguidescategoryids = array();
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes = new DB_MSSQL;
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes->Database=$newweb_db;
$dbselectgameguidecategoryes->query("Select GameGuideCatNr,GameGuideCatName_$languageid as GameGuideCatName,GameGuideCatImage from GameGuide_Category where GameGuideCatVisible = 1 order by GameGuideCatOrder asc");
while ($dbselectgameguidecategoryes->next_record()) {
$gameguidescategoryids[] = $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatNr');
$gameguidecategoryes[] = array(
'ggcname' => $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatName'),
'ggcimg' => $dbselectgameguidecategoryes->f('GameGuideCatImage'),
);
}
if (count($gameguidescategoryids)) {
$dbselectgameguide = new DB_MSSQL;
$dbselectgameguide->Database=$newweb_db;
$dbselectgameguide->query("Select GameGuideID,GameGuideName_$languageid as GameGuideName from GameGuide_Content where GameGuideCat IN (".implode(',', $gameguidescategoryids).") and GameGuideVisible = 1 order by GameGuideOrder asc");
while ($dbselectgameguide->next_record()){
$gameguides[] = array(
'ggid' => $dbselectgameguide->f('GameGuideID'),
'ggn' => $dbselectgameguide->f('GameGuideName'),
);
}
}