Read More Button - php

Question

I have the below table in my site...
and what I want is that when i click on the read more link to redirect me to the page view_announcement.php and in this page to display me the whole data for this specific row.
For example, if we click on the link in the second row I want in the view_announcement.php to load all the data for this specific row.
My code in order to display this table is this...
<?php
$q = ($_GET['q']);
$con = mysqli_connect('localhost','root','smogi','project');
if (!$con) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysqli_error($con));
}
mysqli_select_db($con,"project");
$sql="SELECT author,category,subject,content FROM announcements WHERE category = '".$q."'";
$result = mysqli_query($con,$sql);
echo "<table>
<tr>
<th>Author</th>
<th>Category</th>
<th>Subject</th>
<th>Content</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['author'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['category'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['subject'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . 'Read More' . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
The view_announcement.php file doesn't contain any code yet because i dont know what to write.

Answer 1

One way to do it is to append a query variable to the "Read More" links. You'll probably need a unique identifier, such as an ID number, on your announements table. If you don't have one yet, I suggest adding one and setting it up to auto-increment.
You would want to modify your query to include the unique ID number:
$sql="SELECT id,author,category,subject,content FROM announcements WHERE category = '".$q."'";
Then you would modify the loop which prints your table out to include those unique IDs in the URL to view_announcement.php
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['author'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['category'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['subject'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . 'Read More' . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
And in your file view_announcement.php, you would make another SQL query to get the full data for a specific row, like this:
$sql="SELECT * FROM announcements WHERE ID = '".$_GET['id']."'";

Answer 2

If you click any button, that redirects to view_announcement.php file, where you can get the subject values.
Use that subject values in your query to get all the details which relates to that subject.