I want to run a query that gets all the data from a database then have the data split into arrays for each column. With this I intend to dynamically populate html. I am not very experienced with php and could use some assistance with how to put my query into multiple arrays depending on what column it was in.
Example: For the column name I want an array $itemName[] and it will contain every item name in asc order. Then for the image column I want an array $itemImage[] for every image/image url in the same order.
With this I plan to run a for loop where as x increases it will go through each diff array and pull from the specified location. There are no null values in my DB so I don't need to worry about that.
Any help you can give me with the writing the query into multiple arrays based on the column name is appreciated.
$mPos = array(mPos1, mPos2, mPos3, mPos4);
for (x=0; x<4; x++){
echo "<div class="$mPos[x]"> <div class="$mPos[x] . '_1'">"$title[x]"</div><div class="$mPos1 . '_2'">"$image[x]"</div>
Still doesn't make sense for me to separate it that way, but here you go.
Since you didn't provide a database/table structure, I will assume your db table got the following columns:
itemId | itemName | itemImage | itemDescription
In PHP you loop through the result row for row and populate your arrays like
foreach ( $result AS $row ) {
$itemNames[$row->itemId] = $row->itemName;
$itemImages[$row->itemId] = $row->itemImage;
$itemDescriptions[$row->itemId] = $row->itemDescription;
}
EDIT: After question was updated and now includes the HTML output, I'd suggest something like this.
foreach ( $result AS $row ) {
$items[$row->itemId] = array(
'name' => $row->itemName,
'image' => $row->itemImage,
'description' => $row->itemDescription,
'price' => $row->itemPrice,
'link' => $row->itemLink,
);
}
$x = 0;
while ($x<4) {
$x++;
$item = array_shift($items);
echo '<div class="mPos'.$x.'">
<div class="mPos'.$x.'_1">"'.$item['name'].'"</div>
<div class="mPos'.$x.'_2">"'.$item['price'].'"</div>
<div class="mPos'.$x.'_3"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">
<img src="'.$item['image'].'" /></a>
</div>
</div>';
}
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT itemName, itemImage FROM myTable");
$sth->execute();
$result = $sth->fetchAll();
$myArr = array();
foreach($result as $row){
foreach($row as $colName => $colVal){
$myArr[$colName][] => $colVal;
}
}
echo '<pre>';
print_r($myArr);
echo '</pre>';
Although I do have misgivings about how you're actually approaching this from a design perspective.
Related
I have this little query that produces the percentage of responses correctly.
$pdo->query("SELECT avg(pineapple = 'yes')*100 FROM responses");
But what I need to do, is get columns question1,2,3,4 columns together where they are arrayed as columnname => percentage for my graph.
Since I'm not getting two fields in the SELECT, I am unclear how to move forward to set up array like I have before:
$results = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$jsnarray = array();
$json = json_encode($results);
foreach($results as $k => $v){
$jsnarray[] = array('question' => $results[$k]['COLUMN???'], 'value' => $results[$k]['question1']);
};
Update:
To clarify desired output: an array like:
[column1name] => column yes response %
[column2name] => column2 yes response %
so it would theoretically be:
[pineapple] => 55%
[cheesecurds] => 80%
Which allows the bar graph to be labeled pineapple with the value of 55% and so on.
You should normalize your database design. With your current design, you have to list each column separately. What happens if you need to add a new ingredient?
You could modify your existing SQL to calculate an average of each column like so:
SELECT
avg(pineapple = 'yes')*100 AS pineapple,
avg(mushroom = 'yes')*100 AS mushroom,
avg(anchovy = 'yes')*100 AS anchovy,
avg(cheesecurd = 'yes')*100 AS cheesecurd
FROM responses
Then in PHP, you can just access it as you normally would with any other column.
$averages = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
echo "Anchovies: ".$averages['anchovy'];
For a non normalized database like one using imports from google forms:
$stmt = $pdo->query("SELECT 100*avg(pineapple = 'yes') AS Pineapple, 100*avg(pepperoni = 'yes') AS Pepperoni, 100*avg(mushrooms = 'yes') AS Mushrooms, 100*avg(anchovies = 'yes') AS Anchovies FROM responses");
$averages = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$jsonEncodedData=json_encode($averages);
header( 'Content-type: application/json' );
echo $jsonEncodedData;
I did 100*avg for percentage.
Again, don't use this if you can help it.
This is my Entire Code:
<?php
$query = "SELECT category FROM html where id = '1' ";
$result = mysql_query($query);
//while loop to display mysql table field values in html text boxes
$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
$count = count($row);
$y = 0;
while ($y < $count) {
$c_row = current($row);
next($row);
$y = $y + 1;
}
$i = $i + 1;
$category = $c_row;
}
echo $category;
?>
I am showing the value of $categories variable using this code given below:
Categories ( '. $categories; .' )
Actaully, the above code including to is not directly written in php
web page. The code "Categories ( '. $categories; .' ) " is containing in the data base. Therefore $categories; cannot be parsed.
What I need is to show the Value:
Eg, if $categories = Books and Shelf;
I need, Categories ( '. $categories; .' ) :- Categories (Books and Shelf)
The $categories; value is already obtained in the php page before selecting from Mysql Table.
How can I parse php variable inserted in Mysql Row?
Categories ( '. $categories; .' ) :- The complete html tag is putted in the data base. The complete html code in the Mysql DB.
I'd like to know why you are storing variable references like that in your db but to solve it you could simply do something like this:
/*
assuming $string contains EXACTLY this
<h4>Categories ( '. $categories; .' ) </h4>
*/
echo str_replace('\'. $categories; .\'',$categories, $string);
If you commonly need to do word replacement on strings stored in a database I would recommend one of the following instead:
1) Use sprintf() and store your string like this:
$string = '<h4>Categories ( %s ) </h4>';
echo sprintf($string, $categories);
2) Use str_replace() and format string with braces around replacements:
$string = '<h4>Categories ( {categories} ) </h4>';
echo str_replace('{categories}', $categories, $string);
The benefit of that last one is you could store all kinds of variable references and replace them accordingly without having to know if they exist in the string:
$string = 'Hello, my name is {firstname} and I live in {city}, {state}';
$replace = ['{firstname}','{lastname}','{address}','{city}','{state}'];
$info = [
'firstname' => 'john',
'lastname' => 'doe',
'address' => '123 main st',
'city' => 'somewhere',
'state' => 'IL'
];
echo str_replace($replace, $info, $string);
OUTPUT: Hello, my name is john and I live in somewhere, IL
A rewrite of your code:
1) Stop using MySQL_ fuctions, they are deprecated, insecure and should not be used. There are two alternatives; mysqli_ functions (Object orientated or Procedural) or PDO functionality (object orientated only)
2) Your question appears uclear, is your <h4> tag within <?php tags or is it just HTML? To output PHP you need to wrap the print/echo article in <?php tags to tell the server how to process this section of the code.
Likewise, you need to be sure the page is pocessed as a PHP page rather than just as an HTML page. So does the page name end with .php (such as page.php)?
3) For clarity: while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) will only ever output one row at a time, each MySQL row with hold numerous columns.
4) It's very useful for you to indent your brackets correctly, typing four spaces (not tab) for each bracket contents, as exampled a litte bit below.
5) Your While loops are confused; you have too any brackets. Your value $c_row will only ever be the final value found in the row, but the row will only ever have one unqiue value in it -- that of the category column, because that's what's specified in the SQL query.
Rewrite:
/***
* Fill with your own values, Address is usually 'Localhost'
***/
// connction details:
$conn = mysqli_connect(Address, User, Password, Database);
// A numeric column (id) does not need values to be quoted.
$query = "SELECT category FROM html where id = 1 ";
// note the mysqli_ and use of new $conn variable setout above
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
/***
* Typical output from the above for returning two rows from
* the DB would be:
* $result[0]['category'] = "whatever_value"
* $result[0][0] = "whatever_value"
* $result[1]['category'] = "whatever_value_row2"
* $result[1][0] = "whatever_value_row2"
***/
// This will fetch all the rows, one row at a time,
// with array keys being the SQL column names
// (ignores numeric array keys).
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC))
{
// use definite named array key selectors to not need counters.
$category = $row['category'];
echo $category;
}
That would give you an output:
whatever_value
whatever_value_row2
To make your <h4> work as expected you can try replacing your echo with:
print "<h4>Categories ( ". $category; ." ) </h4>";
I found on the PHP documentation the function "array_multisort" that is meant to sort an array "of columns". They provide one example where the user has an array of rows and then the user has to transform this array of rows into an array of columns. In my case the array is already set by columns, such as:
tablearray
{
['Employee_ID'] = {0 => row1, 1 => row2, 2 => row3, 3 => row4}
['First_Name'] = {0 => row1, 1 => row2, 2 => row3, 3 => row4}
['LastName'] = {0 => row1, 1 => row2, 2 => row3, 3 =>row4}
}
I want to sort by Employee_ID and I need all the other columns to follow the same order. I tried:
array_multisort($tablearray['Employee_ID'], SORT_ASC);
But it only sorts the first column (which becomes a mess). The array has more than 10 columns and it changes the column names depending on the search (the columns names are its keys).
On PHP's documentation for this function, the example provided shows that the after transforming the rows array into a columns array, we should use the original array as a third parameter to match the keys - I don't have the "original" array to do the match since I didn't transform anything.
Thank you.
Desired output, as suggested by one user:
Original:
array
{
['Employee_ID'] = (1002, 4508, 0002, 1112)
['Business_Unit'] = ('UER', 'ABC', 'XYZ', 'EER')
['LastName'] = ('Smith', 'Vicente', 'Simpson', 'Thompson')
}
Sorted by Employee ID:
array
{
['Employee_ID'] = (0002, 1002, 1112, 4508)
['Business_Unit'] = ('XYZ', 'UER', 'EER', 'ABC')
['LastName'] = ('Simpson','Smith', 'Thompson', 'Vicente')
}
--
My original array is a database query output:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[Employee_ID] => 0000
[Supervisor_ID] => 00000
[Location_Descr] => somewhere
[Start_Date] => 06/03/2002
[Service_Date] => 06/03/2002
[Rehire_Date] => 00/00/00
[Business_Unit] => YYYY
[Job_Title] => Manager
[Email] => email#example.com
[Dept_Desc] => bla bla bla
[Employee_Name_LF] => Last, First
[Supervisor_Name_LF] => Last, First
[Term_Date] => 00/00/00
[Preferred_Name] => Someone
[Source] => Sheet2
)
)
There a several more rows.
The main purpose is to show the results as an HTML table and to generate a CSV file. I already made those functions using the modified structure (the first that I posted). I thought it would be easier to deal with that structure... Indeed it was, but not for sorting unfortunately.
The array_multisort documentation (http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-multisort.php) suggests separating each column as an individual array.. However, as you can see I have several columns (and the user can select more or less to be shown before performing the query.. So I can't just list all of them on the statement).
I a willing to change everything just to make the code better to be worked with.
Ugly - would be a lot easier if you formatted the input tables.
$arr = array(
'Employee_ID' => array('1002', '4508', '0002', '1112'),
'Business_Unit' => array('UER', 'ABC', 'XYZ', 'EER'),
'LastName' => array('Smith', 'Vicente', 'Simpson', 'Thompson')
);
$employees = array();
foreach (range(0, sizeof($arr[current(array_keys($arr))]) - 1) as $k) {
$emp = array();
foreach ($arr as $col => $vals) {
$emp[$col] = $arr[$col][$k];
}
$employees[] = $emp;
}
$sort = array();
foreach ($employees as $k => $v) {
$sort[$k] = $v['Employee_ID'];
}
array_multisort($sort, SORT_ASC, $employees);
print_r($employees);
And to put back in the original format:
$arr_sorted = array();
foreach (array_keys($arr) as $col) {
$arr_sorted[$col] = array();
foreach ($employees as $emp) {
$arr_sorted[$col][] = $emp[$col];
}
}
print_r($arr_sorted);
Thank you for posting the extra details in your question, as they did help in understanding the intent of your question.Now, you didn't tell us how that table should look; If you want the employees one per row, or one per column. Which is kind of crucial to know. Normally one would have one employee per line, especially if this is to be exported to CVS. However, I have a suspicion that it's the latter you want. Otherwise you've gone about this in a very overly complicated manner.Point in case: Normal one-per-row layout:
<?php
$db = new PDO();
// Defining the fields we need here, to avoid having too long a string for the query.
$fields = "e.employee_id, e.first_name, e.lastname, u.business_unit, s.email";
// Do the sorting in the database itself. Not only is this faster, but it
// is also a lot easier to sort it exactly as you'd like.
// Note that I don't use prepared statements here, as there is no user-input.
$query = <<<outSQL
SELECT {$Fields} FROM `unit` AS u
INNER JOIN `employee` AS e ON e.employee_id = u.unit_id
INNER JOIN `employee` AS s ON s.employee_id = u.supervisor_id
ORDER BY e.`employee_id`
outSQL;
$data = $db->query($query);
// Creating a printf() template for the output, to make the code easier to maintain.
$rowTemplate = <<<outHTML
<tr>
<td>%1\$d</td>
<td>%2\$s</td>
<td>%3\$s</td>
</tr>
outHTML;
// Generate the table template, using placeholders for where the data will be added..
$tableTemplate = <<<outHTML
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>First name</th>
<th>Last name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
%s
</tbody>
</table>
outHTML;
// Regular table output, one employee per line.
$temp = '';
foreach ($data as $e) {
// hs() is a shortcut function to htmlspecialchars (), to prevent against XSS.
$temp .= sprintf($rowTemplate, $e['employee_id'], hs($e['first_name']), hs($e['lastname']));
}
// Add the rows to the table, so that you can echo the completed product wherever you need.
$employeeTable = sprintf($tableTemplate, $temp);
If you want to do it one per column, it becomes a bit more intricate. Though, still a bit easier than your first attempt. :)
Namely, something like this:
<?php
$db = new PDO();
// Defining the fields we need here, to avoid having too long a string for the query.
$fields = "employee_id, first_name, lastname";
// Do the sorting in the database itself. Not only is this faster, but it
// is also a lot easier to sort it exactly as you'd like.
// Note that I don't use prepared statements here, as there is no user-input.
$data = $db->query("SELECT {$Fields} FROM `employees` ORDER BY `employee_id`");
// We need to know how many columns we'll have. One per employee.
$columns = count ($data);
// Rows have a header in front of each line, and one td tag for each employee.
$rowTemplate = "\t\t<th>%s</th>\n".str_repeat("\t\t\t<td>%s</td>\n", $columns);
// Generate the table template, using placeholders for where the data will be added..
$tableTemplate = <<<outHTML
<table>
<tbody>
%s
</tbody>
</table>
outHTML;
// Reformat the array to give us the data per-column.
$temp = array ();
foreach ($data as $field => $e) {
// Since we've already sorted the data in the database we don't need to do any further sorting here.
// Also note that I'm doing the escaping here, seeing as this array will only be used for output.
$temp['Employee ID'][] = intval($e['employee_id']);
$temp['First name'][] = hs($e['first_name']);
$temp['Last name'][] = hs($e['lastname']);
}
// Now we do the same as in the above example.
$rows = '';
foreach ($temp as $label => $l) {
// We have the label as the first template variable to be added, so put it as the first element.
array_unshift($l, $label);
// Add the current row of items to the output, using the previously established template.
$rows = vprintf($rowTemplate, $l);
}
// Add the rows to the table, so that you can echo the completed product wherever you need.
$employeeTable = sprintf($tableTemplate, $temp);
PS: Haven't tested the code, but it should work.
I ran into his problem and after much angst found a really nice solution in the notes on the php manual page - I now have the following function which i use whenever I need to solve this type of problem.
function fnArrayOrderby(){
//function to sort a database type array of rows by the values in one or more column
//source http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-multisort.php - user notes
//example of use -> $sorted = fnArrayOrderby($data, 'volume', SORT_DESC, 'edition', SORT_ASC);
$args = func_get_args(); //Gets an array of the function's argument list (which can vary in length)
//echo "sorting ".$args[0]."<br>";
if (!isset($args[0])) { return;}
$data = array_shift($args); //Shift an element off the beginning of array
foreach ($args as $n => $field) {
if (is_string($field)) {
$tmp = array();
foreach ($data as $key => $row)
$tmp[$key] = $row[$field];
$args[$n] = $tmp;
}
}
$args[] = &$data;
call_user_func_array('array_multisort', $args);
return array_pop($args);
}
I previously designed the website I'm working on so that I'd just query the database for the information I needed per-page, but after implementing a feature that required every cell from every table on every page (oh boy), I realized for optimization purposes I should combine it into a single large database query and throw each table into an array, thus cutting down on SQL calls.
The problem comes in where I want this array to include skipped IDs (primary key) in the database. I'll try and avoid having missing rows/IDs of course, but I won't be managing this data and I want the system to be smart enough to account for any problems like this.
My method starts off simple enough:
//Run query
$localityResult = mysql_query("SELECT id,name FROM localities");
$localityMax = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT max(id) FROM localities"));
$localityMax = $localityMax[0];
//Assign table to array
for ($i=1;$i<$localityMax+1;$i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($localityResult);
$localityData["id"][$i] = $row["id"];
$localityData["name"][$i] = $row["name"];
}
//Output
for ($i=1;$i<$localityMax+1;$i++)
{
echo $i.". ";
echo $localityData["id"][$i]." - ";
echo $localityData["name"][$i];
echo "<br />\n";
}
Two notes:
Yes, I should probably move that $localityMax check to a PHP loop.
I'm intentionally skipping the first array key.
The problem here is that any missed key in the database isn't accounted for, so it ends up outputting like this (sample table):
1 - Tok
2 - Juneau
3 - Anchorage
4 - Nashville
7 - Chattanooga
8 - Memphis
-
-
I want to write "Error" or NULL or something when the row isn't found, then continue on without interrupting things. I've found I can check if $i is less than $row[$i] to see if the row was skipped, but I'm not sure how to correct it at that point.
I can provide more information or a sample database dump if needed. I've just been stuck on this problem for hours and hours, nothing I've tried is working. I would really appreciate your assistance, and general feedback if I'm making any terrible mistakes. Thank you!
Edit: I've solved it! First, iterate through the array to set a NULL value or "Error" message. Then, in the assignations, set $i to $row["id"] right after the mysql_fetch_assoc() call. The full code looks like this:
//Run query
$localityResult = mysql_query("SELECT id,name FROM localities");
$localityMax = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT max(id) FROM localities"));
$localityMax = $localityMax[0];
//Reset
for ($i=1;$i<$localityMax+1;$i++)
{
$localityData["id"][$i] = NULL;
$localityData["name"][$i] = "Error";
}
//Assign table to array
for ($i=1;$i<$localityMax+1;$i++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($localityResult);
$i = $row["id"];
$localityData["id"][$i] = $row["id"];
$localityData["name"][$i] = $row["name"];
}
//Output
for ($i=1;$i<$localityMax+1;$i++)
{
echo $i.". ";
echo $localityData["id"][$i]." - ";
echo $localityData["name"][$i];
echo "<br />\n";
}
Thanks for the help all!
Primary keys must be unique in MySQL, so you would get a maximum of one possible blank ID since MySQL would not allow duplicate data to be inserted.
If you were working with a column that is not a primary or unique key, your query would need to be the only thing that would change:
SELECT id, name FROM localities WHERE id != "";
or
SELECT id, name FROM localities WHERE NOT ISNULL(id);
EDIT: Created a new answer based on clarification from OP.
If you have a numeric sequence that you want to keep unbroken, and there may be missing rows from the database table, you can use the following (simple) code to give you what you need. Using the same method, your $i = ... could actually be set to the first ID in the sequence from the DB if you don't want to start at ID: 1.
$result = mysql_query('SELECT id, name FROM localities ORDER BY id');
$data = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$data[(int) $row['id']] = array(
'id' => $row['id'],
'name' => $row['name'],
);
}
// This saves a query to the database and a second for loop.
end($data); // move the internal pointer to the end of the array
$max = key($data); // fetch the key of the item the internal pointer is set to
for ($i = 1; $i < $max + 1; $i++) {
if (!isset($data[$i])) {
$data[$i] = array(
'id' => NULL,
'name' => 'Erorr: Missing',
);
}
echo "$i. {$data[$id]['id']} - {$data[$id]['name']}<br />\n";
}
After you've gotten your $localityResult, you could put all of the id's in an array, then before you echo $localityDataStuff, check to see
if(in_array($i, $your_locality_id_array)) {
// do your echoing
} else {
// echo your not found message
}
To make $your_locality_id_array:
$locality_id_array = array();
foreach($localityResult as $locality) {
$locality_id_array[] = $locality['id'];
}
I'm trying to make a simple alphabetical list to order items in my database. The thing I can't figure out is how to actually list it.
I would like it to be the same format as you have on miniclip.com
Here's an image
I looked around, but couldnt find an answer really.
(I would like it to finish even at the end of each vertical column, except the last one for sure)
Any help would be welcome!
In MySQL:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY name ASC
In PHP:
$fruits = array("lemon", "orange", "banana", "apple");
sort($fruits);
foreach ($fruits as $key => $val) {
echo "fruits[" . $key . "] = " . $val . "\n";
}
fruits[0] = apple
fruits[1] = banana
fruits[2] = lemon
fruits[3] = orange
Assuming that your result set already is sorted by using the ORDER BY clause, to group the results by their first character you just need to remember the first character of the previous entry and print out the first character of the current entry if they are different. So:
$prevLabel = null;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$currLabel = strtoupper(substr($row['name'], 0, 1));
if ($currLabel !== $prevLabel) {
echo $currLabel;
$prevLabel = $currLabel;
}
echo $row['name'];
}
This will print the first character as a label for each group that’s members have the same first character.
He doesn't seem to have an issue with the storting, but doing the column format and headers for each new letter.
Suppose $arr contains your alphabetically sorted list with numeric keys. each element has indexes 'name' and 'link'. This should be pretty safe assumption for data from a SQL query.
$firstLetter = -1;
$desiredColumns = 4; //you can change this!
$columnCount = (count($arr)+27)/$desiredColumns+1;
echo "<table><tr><td>";
foreach($arr as $key => $cur)
{
if ($key != 0 && $key % desiredColumns == 0) echo "</td><td>";
if ($cur['name'][0] !== $firstLetter)
{
echo "<strong>$firstLetter</strong> <br />"; $firstLetter = $cur['name'][0];
}
echo "".$cur['name']."<br />";
}
echo "</td><tr></table>";
You'll have to treat numbers as a special case, but this is the idea. If you are using a template engine there are obviously better ways of doing this, but I figure you would have mentioned that. This is a rough sketch, making pretty HTML isn't my thing.
--Query-- get table into $arr. I can't see your tables obviously, Im making assumptions if names nad stuff so you'll need to verify or change them
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table T ORDER BY name";
$conn = //you should have this
$res = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
$arr = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_assc($res)
$arr[] = $row;
// start above code here. This isn't safe for empty query responses or other error but it works
I presume you're using MySQL (or another SQL) database, in which case you should simply retrieve the data in the required order using a SORT BY clause on the lookup SELECT. (Sorting this PHP is trivial via the sort function, but it makes sense to get the database to do this - that's pretty much what it's for.)
In terms of balancing the output of each of the columns, you could get a COUNT of the required rows in your database (or simply use the count of the resulting PHP array of data) and use this to ensure that the output is balanced.
As a final thought, if this is going to be output on a per-page basis, I'd highly recommend generating it into a static file when the structure changes and simply including this static file as a part of the output - generating this on the fly is needlessly resource inefficient.
The mysql option mentioned above is definitely the best bet. If the data comes out of the DM in order, that's the simplest way to go.
Your next option might be to look at the
asort and ksort functions in PHP to find the exact one you're looking for.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php
How are you pulling the data?
<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT titles FROM gamelist ORDER BY title ASC");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo "{$result['title']}<br/>";
}
?>
There are two ways to do it.
You could use your database and use the 'order' clause to pull them by a specific field alphabetically.
You could also use either a key sort or value sort on a PHP array.
The PHP functions are sort($array) and ksort($array).
http://php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ksort.php
<?php
$list = $your_list_array_from_database
//if you need info on how to do this, just let me know
sort($list);
foreach($list as $item) {
echo $item;
}
?>
I found this post and had the same problem. I used the code below to output a list by category name with a header equal to the first letter. In my database table (category) I have name and category_letter. So, name = football and category_list = 'F'.
<section>
<?php
try {
$cats_sql = $dbo->prepare("SELECT name, category_list, FROM category WHERE category_list REGEXP '^[A-Z#]' GROUP BY category_list ASC");
$cats_sql->execute();
$results_cats = $cats_sql->fetchAll();
} catch(PDOException $e) {
include('basehttp/error');
}
$array_cats = $results_cats;
if(is_array($array_cats)) {
foreach($array_cats as $row_cats) {
$cat_var = $row_cats[category_list]; // Each Category list title
?>
<aside>
<h1><a name=""><? echo $cat_var ?></a></h1>
<?php
try {
$search_sql = $dbo->prepare("SELECT name, category_list FROM category WHERE category_list=:cat_var ORDER BY name ASC"); // Pulling a list of names for the category list
$search_sql->bindParam(":cat_var",$cat_var,PDO::PARAM_STR);
$search_sql->execute();
$results_search = $search_sql->fetchAll();
} catch(PDOException $e) {
include('basehttp/error');
}
$array_search = $results_search;
if(is_array($array_search)) { // Output list of names which match category
foreach($array_search as $row_search) {
?>
<h2><?php echo $row_search[name]; ?></h2>
<br class="clear">
<?php
}
}
?>
</aside>
<br class="clear">
<?php
}
}
?>
</section>
Its actually Simple....I did similar thing for my project once. I had to pull out all music albums name and categorize them in alphabetical order.
In my table, "album_name" is the column where names are stored.
$sql= "select * from album_table order by album_name ASC";
$temp_char= ""; // temporary variable, initially blank;
using while loop, iterate through records;
while($row= $rs->fetch_assoc())
{
$album_name= $row['album_name'];
$first_char_of_albm= $album_name[0]; // this will store first alphabet;
$first_char_of_albm= strtoupper($first_char_of_albm); // make uppercase or lower as per your needs
if($temp_char!=$first_char_of_albm)
{
echo $first_char_of_albm;
$temp_char= $first_char_of_albm; // update $temp_char variable
}
}
That's it....
I am posting my answer to this old question for 3 reasons:
You don't always get to write your queries to MySQL or another DBMS, as with a web service / API. None of the other answers address PHP sorting without query manipulation, while also addressing the vertical alphabetical sort
Sometimes you have to deal with associative arrays, and only a couple other answers deal with assoc. arrays. BTW, my answer will work for both associative and indexed arrays.
I didn't want an overly complex solution.
Actually, the solution I came up with was pretty simple--use multiple tags with style="float:left", inside of a giant table. While I was sceptical that having multiple tbody tags in a single table would pass HTML validation, it in fact did pass without errors.
Some things to note:
$numCols is your desired number of columns.
Since we are floating items, you may need to set the width and min-width of parent elements and/or add some <br style="clear: both" />, based on your situation.
for alternative sorting methods, see http://php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php
Here's my full answer:
function sortVertically( $data = array() )
{
/* PREPARE data for printing */
ksort( $data ); // Sort array by key.
$numCols = 4; // Desired number of columns
$numCells = is_array($data) ? count($data) : 1 ;
$numRows = ceil($numCells / $numCols);
$extraCells = $numCells % $numCols; // Store num of tbody's with extra cell
$i = 0; // iterator
$cCell = 0; // num of Cells printed
$output = NULL; // initialize
/* START table printing */
$output .= '<div>';
$output .= '<table>';
foreach( $data as $key => $value )
{
if( $i % $numRows === 0 ) // Start a new tbody
{
if( $i !== 0 ) // Close prev tbody
{
$extraCells--;
if ($extraCells === 0 )
{
$numRows--; // No more tbody's with an extra cell
$extraCells--; // Avoid re-reducing numRows
}
$output .= '</tbody>';
}
$output .= '<tbody style="float: left;">';
$i = 0; // Reset iterator to 0
}
$output .= '<tr>';
$output .= '<th>'.$key.'</th>';
$output .= '<td>'.$value.'</td>';
$output .= '</tr>';
$cCell++; // increase cells printed count
if($cCell == $numCells){ // last cell, close tbody
$output .= '</tbody>';
}
$i++;
}
$output .= '</table>';
$output .= '</div>';
return $output;
}
I hope that this code will be useful to you all.