Join two database tables and output resutls to HTML table - php

Question

For my current progress I need to create a table like the one below
pid cid eid name value
1 1 4 name ab
2 1 5 amt 2
3 1 4 name cd
4 1 5 amt 4
Instead of creating the table like this
pid cid name amt
1 1 ab 22
2 1 cd 4
Anyhow created table as my wish with the below code
<table width="1204" height="100" border="1">
<tr>
<?php $sqlname="Select * From elements where cat_id='1' order by e_id ";
$resname=mysql_query($sqlname);
while($rowname=mysql_fetch_array($resname)){
?>
<td colspan="2"><?php echo $rowname['lable_name']; ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<?php $i=0;
$sqlprolist="select value from products_list where name='".$rowname['lable_name']."' and e_id='".$rowname['e_id']."'";
$resprolist=mysql_query($sqlprolist);
while($rowprolist=mysql_fetch_array($resprolist)){
$i++;
?>
<td><?php echo $rowprolist['value'];?></td>
<?php if($i%8==0){
?>
<tr></tr>
<?php }?>
<?php }?>
</tr>
<?php }?>
</table>
But I don't have any idea to retrieve data from the table for processing.
thanks
as by following martin the table created as like the below table
pid cid eid name value
12 1 4 name abc
1 1 4 name cde
13 1 5 code 12
2 1 5 code 14
how to split up the data
like
name code breeder quality size
abc 12 121 121 22
acfd 34 164 22 22
thanks

Answer 1

It's difficult to help you without seeing database structure. Please share it with us, you might get better answers.
Anyway, I suppose you have two tables, elements and products_list. It looks like you need to lookup the value column in the products_list for every row in the elements table. You can merge these table into one result set using a single SQL query:
SELECT e.p_id, e.cat_id, e.e_id, e.lable_name, p.value
FROM elements e, products_list p
WHERE e.cat_id='1' AND
p.name = e.lable_name AND p.e_id = e.e_id
ORDER BY by e.e_id
Note that the e.p_id is just a guess, you have not shared with us, where the "pid" column value gets from. Also not sure, if you actually need to match the rows using the p.name = e.lable_name. If e_id is primary key, you might do with p.e_id = e.e_id only.
What's the point of cid column? If it is indeed the cat_id column in database, why do you need it in HTML table, if you filter the elements to cat_id=1 anyway? Was that intentional?
You can now take the results of the query and simply output it to a HTML table row by row like:
<table width="1204" height="100" border="1">
<tr>
<th>pid</th>
<th>cid</th>
<th>eid</th>
<th>name</th>
<th>value</th>
</tr>
<?php
$sqlname =
"SELECT e.p_id, e.cat_id, e.e_id, e.lable_name, p.value ".
"FROM elements e, products_list p ".
"WHERE e.cat_id='1' AND ".
"p.name = e.lable_name AND p.e_id = e.e_id".
"ORDER BY e.e_id";
$resname = mysql_query($sqlname);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($resname))
{
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $row['p_id'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['cat_id'];?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['e_id'];?></td>
<td><?php echo htmlspecialchars($row['lable_name']);?></td>
<td><?php echo $row['value'];?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
This is just a first step. It's unlikely this is correct answer. But I hope it helps you understand, what are you trying to do and to your question.
This is hardly production-grade code. But I wanted to do as little changes as possible, so you can see, what is the actual change from your code.
Also note that the mysql_ functions are deprecated. See the big red box on PHP documentation page.