Calling method from another php file - php

Question

So I'm trying my hand at creating php methods from scratch. My classes aren't exactly classes yet, I'm still working on that. Anyway, my issue's I can't seem to get the values I expect from my database. Here's a snippet of my code:
file1.php
<?php function dbConnect() {
$connection = mysqli_connect("localhost", "music_root", "", "music");
if($connection->connect_error) {
return null;
}
return $connection;}
function getCategory() {
$cn = dbConnect();
if($cn == null) {
echo "Failed to connect to database.";
} else {
$fetchQuery = mysqli_query($cn, "SELECT * FROM tbl1 ORDER BY 'Name'") or die(mysqli_error($cn));
if(mysqli_num_rows($fetchQuery) > 0) {
while($item = mysqli_fetch_array($fetchQuery)) {
return $item["Name"];
}
}
}} ?>
Here's the snippet of how I call the above method in file2.php
<?php ini_set("display_errors", 1);
include_once("file1.php");
$con = dbConnect();
$updateStat = false; ?>
<div>
<label>Genre</label>
<select id="genre" name="genre" value="Please select genre">
<option value="<?php $con->getCategory() ?>"></option>
</select>
</div>
I've tried printing a message at the start of the method to see if the it's being called but the message did not print either so I was wondering, what am I possibly missing here?

Answer 1

I think you have serveral mistakes in your code ... i guess, you don't use OOP (classes) so i modfiy a example which should work .. .if not, please post error messages
file1.php
function getCategory($cn) {
$out = array();
if($cn == null) {
echo "Failed to connect to database.";
} else {
$fetchQuery = mysqli_query($cn, "SELECT * FROM tbl1 ORDER BY 'Name'") or die(mysqli_error($cn));
if(mysqli_num_rows($fetchQuery) > 0) {
while($item = mysqli_fetch_array($fetchQuery)) {
$out[] = $item["Name"];
}
}
return $out;
}
}
fil2.php
<?php
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
require_once("file1.php");
$con = dbConnect();
$updateStat = false;
$res = getCategory($con);
?>
<div>
<label>Genre</label>
<select id="genre" name="genre" value="Please select genre">
<?php
foreach($res as $cat):
?>
<option value="<?php echo $cat ?>"><?php echo $cat ?></option>
<?php endforeach;?>
</select>