PHP and sql diplay item - php

Question

I'm facing some problem regarding to display data from sql.
I store my data into 2 table: table student and table company.
table student
{ id, name, company_code, fac_staff_id }
table company
{id, company_name, company_state}
I'm trying to create a table shown as below.
State A
company A
student 1
student 2
company B
student 3
student 4
State B
company C
student 5
company D
student 6
student 7
student 8
I tried create a table similar as above structure but just want classify all the student based on there company_state. The output just display only one state and put all student into that state.
$querysel = "SELECT DISTINCT c.company_state,s.fac_staff_id FROM tblcompany
c, tblstudent s WHERE c.id = s.company_code " ;
$resultsel = mysql_query($querysel, $connection);
$querystdsel = "SELECT s.name,c.company_state FROM tblcompany c,
tblstudent s WHERE c.id = s.company_code " ;
$resultstdsel = mysql_query($querystdsel, $connection);
while($rowsel =mysql_fetch_array($resultsel)){
if ($rowsel['fac_staff_id'] == NULL){
echo $rowsel['company_state'];
while($rowstdsel =mysql_fetch_array($resultstdsel)){
if($rowstdsel['company_state']=$rowsel['company_state']){
echo $rowstdsel['name'];
}
}
}
}
Hope someone can tell me way to create a table like above or any alternative ways because i'm still poor in php and mysql. thank you

Answer 1

You should join your statements to have only one result, where every row looks like this with "order by company_state, company_name"
state | company | student
A | A | student1
A | A | student2
A | B | student3
....
In your php you then use lists to get your structure. Something like this: Just written down and no nice, clean, functional code!
<?php
$rows = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
echo "<ul>";
$lastcompany = "";
$laststate = "";
foreach($rows as $row)
{
if(($laststate == "") or ($laststate != $row['state']))
{
// New Item on mainlist: states
if($laststate != $row['state'])
{ // close previous lists (students, companies)
echo "</ul></ul></li>";
}
echo "<li>".$row['state'];
}
if(($lastcompany == "") or ($lastcompany != $row['company']))
{
// New Item on mainlist: companies
if($lastcompany != $row['company'])
{ // close previous (students) list
echo "</ul></li>";
}
echo "<li>".$row['company'];
}
// New student entry
echo "<li>".$row['company']."</li>";
// Redmine company and state for next iteration
$lastcompany = $row['company'];
$laststate = $row['state'];
}
// After all close all lists
echo "</ul></ul></ul>";
?>