Categorize Results in HTML/PHP Table MYSQL - php

Question

I have two tables, dishes and days_avail, where dishes contains information regarding dishes cooked and days_avail contains what days a certain dish is available.
days_avail looks like this:
daysid || dishid || monday || tuesday || wednesday || friday
daysid: unique id
dishid: dish id from dishes table
Mon - Fri: boolean
So, what I am able to do is pull the dishes and show relevant info along with what day it is available on. However, what I am trying to accomplish is categorizing the dishes by the days they are available. So something like this:
Monday
dish name
dish desc desc desc
Tuesday
Dish name
dish desc dish desc
My query is as follows:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM dishes JOIN days_avail ON days_avail.dishid = dishes.id WHERE user_id = :cookid ORDER BY days_avail.daysid";
try {
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute(array(
':cookid' => $cookid
));
}
catch(Exception $error) {
echo '<p class="bg-danger">', $error->getMessage(), '</p>';
}
while($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
$dish_name = $row['dish_name'];
$dish_desc = $row['dish_desc'];
$dish_price = $row['dish_price'];
$mon = $row['Monday'];
$tues = $row['Tuesday'];
$wed = $row['Wednesday'];
$thurs = $row['Thursday'];
$fri = $row['Friday'];
}
I can't group the dishes under one day its available. I have tried using a if statement (example: if($mon == 1) { echo "Monday // dish_info, etc" }) but this results in the heading being repeated for each dish.
I have also tried using java handlebars to more or less run a query and then simply "stuff" the results in the (appropriate) div boxes but did not work.
I am get a complete lost here. I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thank you

Answer 1

You can do this by putting your returned rows into an array, based off the day available-
...your query code...
$days=array('Monday'=>array(),'Tuesday'=>array(),'Wednesday'=>array(),'Thursday'=>array(),'Friday'=>array());
while($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
foreach($days as $day=>$array){
if($row[$day]){
$days[$day][]=array('dish_name'=>$row['dish_name'],
'dish_desc'=>$row['dish_desc'],
'dish_price'=>$row['dish_price']);
}
}
}
now just loop over your $days array
foreach($days as $day => $dishes){
echo "<h2>$day</h2>";
foreach($dishes as $dish){
echo $dish['dish_name']."<br />";
echo $dish['dish_desc']."<br />";
echo $dish['dish_price']."<br />";
}
}

Answer 2

Try this :)
$sql = "SELECT * FROM dishes JOIN days_avail ON days_avail.dishid = dishes.id WHERE user_id = :cookid ORDER BY days_avail.daysid";
try {
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute(array(
':cookid' => $cookid
));
}
catch(Exception $error) {
echo '<p class="bg-danger">', $error->getMessage(), '</p>';
}
$dishes = array(
'mon' = array(),
'tues' = array(),
'wed' = array(),
'thurs' = array(),
'fri' = array()
);
while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) {
$dish = array(
'name' => $row['dish_name'],
'desc' => $row['dish_desc'],
'price' => $row['dish_price']
);
$mon = (bool) $row['Monday'];
$tues = (bool) $row['Tuesday'];
$wed = (bool) $row['Wednesday'];
$thurs = (bool) $row['Thursday'];
$fri = (bool) $row['Friday'];
if ($mon) {
$dishes['mon'][] = $dish;
}
if ($tues) {
$dishes['tues'][] = $dish;
}
if ($wed) {
$dishes['wed'][] = $dish;
}
if ($thurs) {
$dishes['thurs'][] = $dish;
}
if ($fri) {
$dishes['fri'][] = $dish;
}
}
// iterate over Monday dishes
foreach ($dishes['mon'] as $dish) {
// $dish['name'], $dish['desc'], $dish['price']
}
// and so on....