I need to output my Access table to a website using PHP - php

Question

Alright, I have no problem outputting multiple lines of data out of the database, I just have no idea how to get it out in the format I want.
Here's my basic issue.
<tr>
<?php
//make connection to database, bail if no connection
$connection = odbc_pconnect('sitedata','','');
if (!$connection) { exit("Connection Failed: " . $connection); }
//retrieve relevant data
$Date = "SELECT EntryDate AS DT FROM TimeSheet WHERE EmployeeID = 'AA01'";
$rs = odbc_exec($connection, $Date);
//output data
while(odbc_fetch_row($rs)) {
$Line1 = odbc_result($rs, 'DT');
printf("<td><center>%s</center></td>", $Line1);
}
?>
</tr>
What this will do is output a one row table, with each new date creating a new column.
Now then, this is sort of useless to me as these need to be output into a single column, where each new datavalue is the beginning of a row. After this, I need to expand the table width wise, adding new data values such as:
$Time = "SELECT TotalTime as EN FROM TimeSheet WHERE EmployeeID = 'AA01'";
$JobName = "SELECT JobName as JN FROM TimeSheet WHERE EmployeeID = 'AA01'";
Where Time is it's own column, JobName is it's own column, etc.
How exactly do I do this? There obviously must be a way, I'm just new at this. Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You need to get the fields in one SQL statement...
SELECT EntryDate AS DT, TotalTime as EN, JobName as JN
FROM TimeSheet WHERE EmployeeID = 'AA01';
With that you can do exactly what you are doing now except build a full row instead of columns.
<?php
//make connection to database, bail if no connection
$connection = odbc_pconnect('sitedata','','');
if (!$connection) { exit("Connection Failed: " . $connection); }
//retrieve relevant data
$Date = "SELECT EntryDate AS DT, TotalTime as EN, JobName as JN FROM TimeSheet WHERE EmployeeID = 'AA01';";
$rs = odbc_exec($connection, $Date);
//output data
while(odbc_fetch_row($rs)) {
$DT = odbc_result($rs, 'DT');
$EN = odbc_result($rs, 'EN');
$JN = odbc_result($rs, 'JN');
printf("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>", $DT, $EN, $JN);
}
?>