Displaying ALL data from sql table in PHP? - php

Question

When I print my code it only prints the question and description of id = 1 but not the rest of the table.
here is my code.
Please show me how to print my entire table which has like 20 questions or so...and also please show me how to make it so that the questions stay on the browser (even when I refresh the page) because currently the data does not stay on the browser when i refresh the page.
Thanks So Much!
<?php
require_once "connection.php";
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$conn = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME );
if($conn->connect_error) {
die("connection error: " . $conn->connect_error);
} else {
echo "Submit button connected to database!";
}
$question = $_POST['question'];
$description = $_POST['description'];
$sql = " INSERT INTO `ask` (question_id, question, description) VALUES
(NULL, '{$question}', '{$description}' ) ";
if($conn->query($sql)) {
echo "it worked";
} else {
echo "error: " . $conn->error;
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT * FROM `ask` ";
if( $result = $conn->query($query)) {
$fetch = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo "<p>{$fetch['question']}</p>";
echo "<p>{$fetch['description']}</p>";
} else {
echo "failed to fetch array";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

You need a for each loop:
<?php
require_once "connection.php";
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$conn = new mysqli(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_NAME );
if($conn->connect_error) {
die("connection error: " . $conn->connect_error);
} else {
echo "Submit button connected to database!";
}
$question = $_POST['question'];
$description = $_POST['description'];
$sql = " INSERT INTO `ask` (question_id, question, description) VALUES
(NULL, '{$question}', '{$description}' ) ";
if($conn->query($sql)) {
echo "it worked";
} else {
echo "error: " . $conn->error;
exit();
}
$query = "SELECT * FROM `ask` ";
if( $result = $conn->query($query)) {
$fetch = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC);
foreach($fetch as $ques) {
echo "<p>" . $ques['question'] . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $ques['description'] . "</p>";
}
} else {
echo "failed to fetch array";
}
}
?>
All I've done there is change:
$fetch = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo "<p>{$fetch['question']}</p>";
echo "<p>{$fetch['description']}</p>";
to:
$fetch = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC);
foreach($fetch as $ques) {
echo "<p>" . $ques['question'] . "</p>";
echo "<p>" . $ques['description'] . "</p>";
}

Answer 2

fetch_assoc() — Fetch a result row as an associative array
so it gets only 1 row you need to loop through the rest of the rows check the examples reference from php docs