Avoid recurring of Records in the code - php

Question

I am implementing Wordpress feature, viewing posts per Year and Month using PHP as
eg:
Press Releases
2013(4)
October(1)
Announcement1
But I am getting each records as repeated in the result. The code is as shown below:
$query = "SELECT * FROM edu_announcements WHERE status = '1' ORDER BY add_time asc";
$resultSet = mysql_query($query);
if (mysql_num_rows($resultSet))
{
$newsArray = array();
echo '<ul>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<li><strong>Press releases:</strong></li>' . PHP_EOL;
while ($newsResult = mysql_fetch_array($resultSet))
{
$newDate = $newsResult['add_time'] ;
$timePeriod =date("F Y", $newDate);
//$timePeriod = date('F Y ',strtotime($newDate));
$timePeriodY = date('Y',$newDate);
$timePeriodM = date('F',$newDate);
if (!isset($newsArray[$timePeriod]))
{
$newsArray[$timePeriod] = array();
}
$newsArray[$timePeriod][] = $newsResult;
}
foreach ($newsArray as $timePeriod => $newsItems)
{
$timePeriodY = date('Y',strtotime($timePeriod));
echo '<li><strong>' . $timePeriodY . '</strong>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<ul>' . PHP_EOL;
//by month
foreach ($newsArray as $timePeriod => $newsItems)
{
echo '<li><strong>' . $timePeriod . '</strong>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<ul>' . PHP_EOL;
//news items
foreach ($newsItems as $item)
{
echo '<li>';
echo ''.$item["title"].'';
echo '</li>' . PHP_EOL;
}
//end by month
echo '</ul>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '</li>' . PHP_EOL;
}
//end by year
echo '</ul>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '</li>' . PHP_EOL;
}
echo '<li> </li>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '</ul>' . PHP_EOL;
}
else {
echo 'No announcements';
}
I am getting the result as repeated as shown below:
Array ( [July 2013] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 99 [id] => 99 [1] => sdfsdf [title] => sdfsdf [2] =>
sdfsdfsdfc
[description] =>
sdfsdfsdfc
[3] => [documents] => [4] => [photo1] => [5] => [photo2] => [6] => [photo3] => [7] => [photo4] => [8] => 1 [public_visibility] => 1 [9] => 0 [dept_visibility] => 0 [10] => 0 [depatment] => 0 [11] => 1373913000 [add_time] => 1373913000 [12] => 1 [status] => 1 [13] => sdfsdf [small_description] => sdfsdf ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 100 [id] => 100 [1] => sefsdfvsxdf [title] => sefsdfvsxdf [2] =>
sdfsdfsd
[description] =>
sdfsdfsd
[3] => [documents] => [4] => [photo1] => [5] => [photo2] => [6] => [photo3] => [7] => [photo4] => [8] => 1 [public_visibility] => 1 [9] => 0 [dept_visibility] => 0 [10] => 0 [depatment] => 0 [11] => 1374604200 [add_time] => 1374604200 [12] => 1 [status] => 1 [13] => sdfsefs [small_description] => sdfsefs ) )
I want distinct records from the table. Can anyone help me to solve this.

Answer 1

If you mean why are you getting the parts of each record duplicated, such as:
[0] => 99
[id] => 99
it is because mysql_fetch_array has a second option (beyond your $resultset), which defaults to int $result_type = MYSQL_BOTH.
The type of array that is to be fetched. It's a constant and can
take the following values: MYSQL_ASSOC, MYSQL_NUM, and MYSQL_BOTH.
If you must use the raw (and old) mysql functions (as others say, this is no longer good practice), then you will also want to probably add , MYSQL_ASSOC to the function call, and then deal only with the name of the columns - such as 'id', 'title' & 'description'. There may also be similar parameters to other DB access calls, though mostly they will use the MYSQL_ASSOC-style returns to have the column name by default.

Answer 2

I solved the answer by using the code as shown below:
echo '<div id="news_events_section_wrapper">
<div class="news_events_section">';
$CURRENT_TIMESTAMP=time();
$sqlstr=mysql_query("select * from nesote_edu_announcements where status=1");
$count=mysql_num_rows($sqlstr);
if($count!=0)
{
while($article=mysql_fetch_row($sqlstr))
{
$id=$article[0];
$details= $article[2];
$postedon=date("F j, Y",$article[11]);
$olderpost=date("Y",$article[11]);
$yearnoquery=mysql_query("select count(*) from nesote_edu_announcements where add_time <='$CURRENT_TIMESTAMP' and status=1 ");
$resultq=mysql_fetch_row($yearnoquery);
$numberofposts=$resultq[0];
}
echo "<a href=javascript:showmonths(".$id.") style=".'"'."text-decoration:none".'"><div>';
echo $olderpost;echo '(';echo $numberofposts;echo ')';
echo '</div>
</a>';
$monthqry=mysql_query("SELECT add_time,COUNT(id),id FROM nesote_edu_announcements WHERE status=1 AND (add_time <='$CURRENT_TIMESTAMP') AND FROM_UNIXTIME(add_time, '%Y')='$olderpost' GROUP BY FROM_UNIXTIME(add_time, '%M') ASC");
while($month=mysql_fetch_row($monthqry))
{
$monthsfordisplay=date("F",$month[0]);
$months=date("m",$month[0]);
$monthnos=$month[1];
$artid=$month[2];
echo '<div id='.'"'."month_art".'"'." class=".'"'."month_"; echo $id.'">';
echo '<a href="javascript:showdetails'.'('; echo $artid; echo ')">'; echo $monthsfordisplay;
echo '('; echo $monthnos; echo ')</a></div>';
$smalldisquery=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM nesote_edu_announcements WHERE FROM_UNIXTIME(add_time, '%m')='$months' AND add_time <='$CURRENT_TIMESTAMP' and status=1");
while($smalldisc=mysql_fetch_row($smalldisquery))
{
$articlemonthid=$smalldisc[0];
$disc=$smalldisc[1];
echo ' <div style="display:none;" id="sub_str" class="smalldiscription_';echo $artid; echo '">
<a href='.'"index.php?page=events/announcementdetails/'; echo $articlemonthid; echo '"'.' style='.'"text-decoration:none;'.'">
<font color="#80000">';
$message=substr($disc,0,30);
$message=$message."...";
echo "* ".$message; echo "</font></a>";
echo "</div>";
}
}
}
echo "</div></div>";
This will show announcements in Year-Month basis.