how to display data from two tables in php - php

Question

I have two tables in a database, sight_country and sightseeing. I am inserting the ID of the country field from the sight_country table to s_country field of the table sightseeing. In php I am showing country field values from sight_country in a CSS drop-down menubar.
the code is
<li class="menu-item-has-children">Sightseeing
<ul class="sub-menu">
<?php
$qry_st = "select * from `sight_country` limit 5";
$rec_st = mysql_query($qry_st );
if( mysql_num_rows($rec_st) > 0)
{
while($res_st = mysql_fetch_array($rec_st))
{
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?id=$res_st[id]'>".$res_st['country']."</a></li>";
}
}
?>
</ul>
</li>
When click on link of county value then I am showing all sightseeing data from the table sightseeing in php page.
the code is
$sql = "select * from `sightseeing` where `s_country` ='$id'";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
$rec = mysql_fetch_array($res);
the country may have two or more related sightseeing data, so I am displaying sightseeing titles from the sightseeing table in a sidebar menu in my PHP page.
the code is
<ul class="st_lnks">
<?php
$qry_st = "select * from `sightseeing` where s_country = '$id'";
$rec_st = mysql_query($qry_st );
if( mysql_num_rows($rec_st) > 0)
{
while($res_st = mysql_fetch_array($rec_st))
{
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?id=$res_st[s_country]'>".$res_st['stitle']."</a></li>";
}
}
?>
</ul>
when I click link of stitle I want to show it's related sightseeing data in same page. How it can be done?

Answer 1

I am assuming that;
The whole script is on one page (sightseeing.php), which varies depending on any GET variables (variables in the URL).
Originally the page just displays the first menu. Then when u click a country, you are sent again to sightseeing.php. Now also with ?id=* which shows also a second list, containing the list of sightseeing relevant to the country selected.
You have a field called 'id' in your sightseeing table that has the unique sightseeing id.
To now additionally show details of the sightseeing selected (clicked by user);
Modify the links in the second list. rather than:
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?id=$res_st[s_country]'>".$res_st['stitle']."</a></li>";
Write:
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?id=$res_st[s_country]&ss_id=$res_st[id]'>".$res_st['stitle']."</a></li>";
Now when u click one of the links and are sent back to to sightseeing.php you will also have another get variable GET['ss_id'] (which has the id of the sightseeing that you want to view).
You can use this variable to pull the relevant details of the sightseeing.
$sightSeeingId = $_GET['ss_id'];
$sql3 = "select * from `sightseeing` where `id` ='$sightSeeingId' LIMIT 1";
$res3 = mysql_query($sql3);
$sightSeeingData = mysql_fetch_array($res3);
check that it has data and print it out
if(!$res3) die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($res3) > 0){
echo "Sight Seeing id:" . $sightSeeingData['id'];
}
As a side note you should be aware that mysql_* functions are outdated and your code is vunerable to sql injection, see here;
GET parameters vulnerable to SQL Injection - PHP

Answer 2

You could give your second link a second parameter. Give the first parameter a unique name
<ul class="sub-menu">
<?php
$qry_st = "select * from `sight_country` limit 5";
$rec_st = mysql_query($qry_st );
if ( mysql_num_rows($rec_st) > 0) {
while ($res_st = mysql_fetch_array($rec_st)) {
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?idCountry=$res_st[id]'>".$res_st['country']."</a></li>";
}
}
?>
</ul>
Then add a second parameter when generating the second link:
<ul class="st_lnks">
<?php
$qry_st = "select * from `sightseeing` where s_country = '$id'";
$rec_st = mysql_query($qry_st );
if ( mysql_num_rows($rec_st) > 0) {
while($res_st = mysql_fetch_array($rec_st)) {
echo "<li><a href='sightseeing.php?idCountry=$idCountry&idSightseeing=res_st['id']'>".$res_st['stitle']."</a></li>";
}
}
?>
</ul>