Select certain columns from multiple rows - php

I'm trying to select all of the products that a user has purchased from my site, based on an order ID.
$orderid = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(orders_id) FROM orders") or die(mysql_error());
$orderid = mysql_fetch_row($orderid);
$productinfo = mysql_query("SELECT products_model, products_name, products_price, products_quantity FROM orders_products WHERE orders_id=" . $orderid[0]);
$productinfo = mysql_fetch_row($productinfo);
echo $productinfo[0] . " | " . $productinfo[1] . " | $" . $productinfo[2] . " | " . $productinfo[3] . "<br><br>";
This will pull one product from the database, but if the customer ordered 8 items, I would need this to loop until all of the products with an order ID of $orderid[0] have been selected. What would be the best way to go about this? Any help is appreciated!

A few things.
First, everyone here will tell you to look into using mysqli or pdo as an alternative to mysql_query, as they are much more secure, and actually easier to maintain and use.
See this article:
http://www.pontikis.net/blog/how-to-use-php-improved-mysqli-extension-and-why-you-should
Second, you could easily cut down your code by writing more efficient queries.
In this case you would want to use a SQL JOIN. (more about joins here http://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-sql-joins-mysql-database/)
SELECT products_model, products_name, products_price, products_quantity
FROM orders_products as products
JOIN orders as orders on products.order_id = order.order_id
WHERE products.order_id = {whatever order id you are trying to find}
This will give you all products that have been ordered for each order id.
And use a while loop to loop through all of your results that come out of your query

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How do I get the lowest value from a MySQL (in PHP) row and obtain a name (or ID) that goes with it?

I have the follwing structure:
id,name,product,price
Now, I want to know how I can get the lowest value from price - and - get the name that belongs to the price. Here's a example:
0,seller1,cake,5
1,seller2,cake,2.50
Obviously seller2 has the lowest price. But I need to get that price - and the name that belongs to that price - and display it in PHP.
Something like this:
echo $seller . " sells " . $product . " for " . $price . ".";
I hope I have been clear enough.
Kind regards,
Hillebrand
The SQL to select what you need would be:
SELECT name, product, price FROM `table` ORDER BY price LIMIT 1
(Note that you didn't provide the table name so you'll need to replace table with the correct name.)
You can then use mysqli_stmt_fetch to fetch the results:
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT name, product, price FROM `table` ORDER BY price LIMIT 1");
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($seller, $product, $price);
$stmt->fetch();
echo $seller . ' sells ' . $product . ' for ' . $price . '.';
Keep in mind that this will only select the first product with the lowest price. You may need to consider how you'd like this to behave if you have two or more items which are equal in having the lowest price (e.g. 0). Should it display them all? Should there be some other field to signify precedence?
maybe
$table = mysql_query("SELECT name, price FROM table ORDER BY price ASC LIMIT 1");
while($y = mysql_fetch_object($table))
{
echo $y->name;
}

cannot retrieve data from 2 tables getting no result

I have 2 tables:
competition_winners where I am storing people who won competition and table competition where I am storing info about actual competition.
So I am retrieving winners and competition's end date. But the query responsible for date doesn't return anything. I am using Opencart so performing query in model. Here is its code.
public function getWinnersByDate($date) {
$qr = "SELECT competition_id FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "competition_winners";
//$fcid = $qr->row['competition_id'];
$query = "SELECT cometition_id,end_date FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "competition WHERE competition_id = '" .$qr->row['competition_id'] . "'";
return $query->row;
Query works fine in PhpMyadmin. What am I missing or doing wrong?
Instead of running this in two queries You should be using JOIN (search about SQL JOIN on google).
public function getWinnersByDate($date) {
$qr = $this->db->query("
SELECT cw.competition_id, c.end_date
FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "competition_winners cw
LEFT JOIN " . DB_PREFIX . "competition c ON c.competition_id = cw.competition_id
");
return $query->rows;
}
I do not know Your DB structure, but the query above has no sense in it's current state - I believe You want to add some WHERE clause using the provided $date argument and that You want to select more information from competition_winners table, so please, either do it Yourself or provide us with more details on Your problem.

While loop displaying result 3 times

Basicly I'm trying to make a simple news feed but I'm stuck at the moment as my while loop display the result 3 times, why is this? :/
<?php
$sql ="SELECT
*
FROM
news,
admins";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if(!$result)
{
echo 'Error while selecting from database. Please contact the administration team';
} else {
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo '
<div class="content_news">
<h1>' . $row['news_name'] . '</h1>
<p style="font-size:12px;">Posted by <b>' . $row['admin_name'] . '</b> on ' . $row['news_date'] . '
<p>' . $row['news_description'] . '</p>
read more
</div>
';
}
}
?>
If you'd like to see what I am talking about: http://freewallpaperblog.com/freshrp/
Ignore the last 2(those are static html not php)
your query selects data from 2 tables (news, admins) so it joins every row of 1st table with every row of 2nd table
SELECT * FROM news, admins
i recommend you to use following query
SELECT news.*, admins.admin_name FROM news
INNER JOIN admins ON news.admin_id = admins.id
where admin_id is your correct column name
You either have 3 admins or 3 rows of news. Your query makes a direct multiplication between tables. Try "left join" instead...
SELECT * FROM news
INNER JOIN admins ON admins.id = news.adminid
Or whatever adminid is in the news table.
Try the following query:
SELECT
*
FROM
news
Inner join admins on news.admin_id = admins.id
You made no JOIN statement in your SQL, as someone else has already commented on in your question. It would help if you posted the associated fields you're grabbing, but based on your $row keys, my best guess is the following should work for you (but I can't promise it will without knowing how your database is designed, I can only infer from the variable names):
$sql = "SELECT news.name, news.date, news.description, news.link, admins.name"
. "FROM news"
. "INNER JOIN admins"
. "ON news.name=admins.name"
References:
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join_inner.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join_left.asp
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.html

orderTotal and orderId inside tpl_checkout_success_default - zen-cart

any ideas how to get orderTotal and orderId inside the tpl_checkout_success_default for the conversions tracking purposes ?
So far it looks like order id can be accessed by using this variable $zv_orders_id but how to get order total ?
will this code work:
$orders_query = "SELECT * FROM zen_orders WHERE orders_id = " . $zv_orders_id ." LIMIT 1";
$orders = $db->Execute($orders_query);
$order_total = $orders->fields['order_total'];
many thanks,
cheers
look in /includes/modules/pages/checkout_success/header_php.php
in there you will see the queries already being run by zencart to do with your order, and id say its already pulling out the info you want.
so you just need to set said data you need to a variable that you can then use in your tpl_checkout_success_default.php file.
eg, something like $customer_has_gv_balance, you will see where it is set in the hearder file and then used in the template file
heres something i found in order.php that would almost do it as is:
$order_total_query = "select text, value
from " . TABLE_ORDERS_TOTAL . "
where orders_id = '" . (int)$order_id . "'
and class = 'ot_total'";
$order_total = $db->Execute($order_total_query);
For a simple tracking code like one used for a shopping comparison site, I've used the following for the order ID and order amount. Use these in the tpl_checkout_success.php page
Order ID:
echo $zv_orders_id;
Use this select statement:
$to_send_sql = 'select REPLACE (text,"$","") text from orders_total where orders_id = '.$zv_orders_id.' and class = "ot_subtotal"';
$to_send= $db->Execute($to_send_sql);
Order amount:
echo $to_send->fields['text'];
Hope this helps someone!

Order by Total For Sum function used

<?
$tablae = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM order_history where (type!='rent_referral' AND type!='rental_balance') AND date>'" . strtotime($time1) . "' AND date<'" . strtotime($time2) . "' GROUP BY user_id");
while ($order = mysql_fetch_array($tablae)) {
?>
<tr>
<?
$tablaes = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM members where id='$order[user_id]'");
$user = mysql_fetch_array($tablaes);
$idsd=$user['id'];
$rPaid=mysql_query("SELECT SUM(`price`) AS total FROM order_history WHERE (type!='rent_referral' AND type!='rental_balance') AND date>'" . strtotime($time1) . "' AND date<'" . strtotime($time2) . "'");
$hdPaid = mysql_fetch_array($rPaid);
$sPaid=mysql_query("SELECT SUM(`price`) AS total FROM order_history WHERE user_id='$idsd' AND (type!='rent_referral' AND type!='rental_balance') AND date>'" . strtotime($time1) . "' AND date<'" . strtotime($time2) . "'");
while ($hPaid = mysql_fetch_array($sPaid)) {
?>
<td><?=$user['username']?></td>
<td><?=$hPaid['total']?></td>
<?
}
?>
</tr>
<? } ?>
This gets me this result http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14384295/test.jpeg
I want to order the price totals by DESC.
I would need
$sPaid=mysql_query("SELECT SUM(`price`) AS total FROM order_history WHERE user_id='$idsd' AND (type!='rent_referral' AND type!='rental_balance') AND date>'" . strtotime($time1) . "' AND date<'" . strtotime($time2) . "'");
the total on that to be ordered by DESC.
Be really carefull with GROUP BY instructions in your SQL query. All columns which are in the result and which are not aggregate expressions (expressions would be the count, SUM, max, etc working on the group and not on the rows) should be in your group by expression;
Here you use a select *, you should try to list the real columns instead, and get this list in your group by, or use only SELECT user_id.
Most database would prevent you of running such not-very-well-formted group by query, but MySQl is not bailing you, tthat does not mean he won't gives you completly wrong results if you do not rexpect this rule (all columns which are not aggregates must be in the group by).
Then you should be able to order by an agregate expression by reusing this expression and not his alias in the order clause.
You could either use client side sorting with javascript, there are some nice jQuery addons that can do that.
Or you have to totaly rewrite your code to have a single sql using joins and group by.
But I cannot realy follow the logic with $rPaid, $hPaid and $sPaid so I cannot help you there.

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