PHP/MySQL Multiple Querys - php

Question

Whoops firgured otu where my parse error was. I had my semi-colon inside my first query.
So essentially I am trying to query with three different select statements in the same PHP script. Is this possible? (Last question I promise, after this I think the basics should get me a few weeks without having to ask more)
<?php
include("server_connect.php");
mysql_select_db("rnissen");
$query = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_four FROM tbltable;"
$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$querytwo = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_five FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results = mysql_query($querytwo) or die(mysql_error());
$querythree = "SELECT COUNT(column_five) FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results = mysql_query($querythree) or die(mysql_error());
?>
Part Two
Ok so I changed the code as suggested and tried to add it into a table. I'm still getting
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$results1' (T_VARIABLE) in C:\xampp\htdocs\3718\assign5SELECT.php on line 7
I tried it without the table and it is still the same error. Is there something I am missing? Here is the updated code with the new variables.
mysql_select_db("rnissen");
$query = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_four FROM tbltable;"
$results1 = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
echo "Column One, Column Two, Column Four : </br>";
echo "<table border=\"1\">\n";
while ($row1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($results1)) {
echo "<tr>\n";
foreach($row1 as $value1) {
echo "<td>\n";
echo $value1;
echo "</td>\n";
}
echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
$querytwo = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_five FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results2 = mysql_query($querytwo) or die(mysql_error());
echo "Column One, Column Two, Column Five : </br>";
echo "<table border=\"1\">\n";
while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($results2)) {
echo "<tr>\n";
foreach($row2 as $value2) {
echo "<td>\n";
echo $value2;
echo "</td>\n";
}
echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
$querythree = "SELECT COUNT(column_five) FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results3 = mysql_query($querythree) or die(mysql_error());
echo "Column 4 has this many 1989s : </br>";
echo "<table border=\"1\">\n";
while ($row3 = mysql_fetch_assoc($results3)) {
echo "<tr>\n";
foreach($row3 as $value3) {
echo "<td>\n";
echo $value3;
echo "</td>\n";
}
echo "</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
?>

Answer 1

$query = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_four FROM tbltable;"
$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$querytwo = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_five FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results = mysql_query($querytwo) or die(mysql_error());
$querythree = "SELECT COUNT(column_five) FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results = mysql_query($querythree) or die(mysql_error());
The problem you are encountering is that you are overwriting your results by using the same variable name.
Example:
$Var = "test";
echo $Var; // Will output "test"
$Var = "Another String";
echo $Var; // Will output "Another String" rather than "test";
So append:
$Results_a = ...;
$Results_b = ...;
$Results_c = ...;
So you can work with your variables easily, another thing you could look at is SQL joins: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.html to cut down your amount of seperate queries

Answer 2

You need to save the queries to a different variable:
<?php
include("server_connect.php");
mysql_select_db("rnissen");
$query = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_four FROM tbltable;"
$results1 = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$querytwo = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_five FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results2 = mysql_query($querytwo) or die(mysql_error());
$querythree = "SELECT COUNT(column_five) FROM tbltable WHERE column_five = 1989";
$results3 = mysql_query($querythree) or die(mysql_error());
?>
However, this is a more convenient way to do perform multiple queries using mysqli_multi_query:
Example from the docs:
$query = "SELECT CURRENT_USER();";
$query .= "SELECT Name FROM City ORDER BY ID LIMIT 20, 5";
/* execute multi query */
if (mysqli_multi_query($link, $query)) {
do {
/* store first result set */
if ($result = mysqli_store_result($link)) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)) {
printf("%s\n", $row[0]);
}
mysqli_free_result($result);
}
/* print divider */
if (mysqli_more_results($link)) {
printf("-----------------\n");
}
} while (mysqli_next_result($link));
}
Edit:
For your updated question, you are missing a semicolon here:
$query = "SELECT column_one, column_two, column_four FROM tbltable";