How do i fetch $row data for colours and services - php

Question

I'm trying to sort out a web portfolio but can't get my head around how I can implement it, if it can!
Basically what I'm after is...
On the portfolio page, list details of the client with their name, description, TAGS (html, css, photoshop, jquery etc), COLOURS USED (black, white, blue, green etc) and services used etc.
At the moment in my client table i have:
"ID title description tags services colours client"
With this current system I have to state all the colours and services all in one row, meaning I can't separate the contents to style it with css (see below).
**I'd like to be able to show the colours used by each project as 16x16 colour blocks and the services as a <ul><li></li></ul> list.
Is this possible?
My current script can be found here:
http://davidpottrell.co.uk/paste/portfolio.txt
What I'm after (found on right of image)
http://davidpottrell.co.uk/paste/todo.png

Answer 1

$db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb;charset=utf8', 'username', 'password');
$query = $db->query('SELECT * FROM client');
foreach($query as $row) {
// I assume you're storing colours as a delimited string? (red,green,yellow)
$colours = explode(',', $row['colours']);
if (count($colours)) {
foreach ($colours as $colour) {
echo '<div class="colour_block" id="'.$colour.'"></div>';
}
}
// Same thing with services
$services = explode(',', $row['services']);
if (count($services)) {
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($services as $service) {
echo '<li id="'.$service.'">'.$service.'</div>';
}
echo '</ul>';
}
}

Answer 2

How are you saving the services and colors at the moment? Do you write strings like service1;service2;service3 into the service column? If so, use PHPs explode() function
$var = "service1;service2;service3";
$result = explode(";", $var);
var_dump($result)
Now you can iterate through the array and replace each service with some image/list item or whatever. It should work like that, although I didn't test it:
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$service_array = explode(",", $row[services]);
echo "<div class='portfolio_block'><h3>Services</h3>";
if(count($services)) {
echo "<ul>";
foreach($service_array as $service) {
echo "<li>" . $service . "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>"
}
echo "</div>";
}
I would also recommend taking Jamies advice and switch from mysql_* functions to PDO. And for "styling" the list items add some class tags :)