how to fetch data from database in four different divs? - php

Question

i want to fetch out the 4 different id's rows from the database. and display in four divs. each div contains a character base unique id. i am doing this to write same query again and again. i want to do with less query.
my code is given below.
<?php
$query = mysql_query("select * from acms_pages where id = 40");
$sql = mysql_fetch_array($query);
?>
<li id="pgAbout">
<section class="content">
<div class="one_half_last"><?php echo $sql['text']; ?></div>
</section>
</li>
<section class="content">
<?php
$query = mysql_query("select * from acms_pages where id = 41");
$sql1 = mysql_fetch_array($query);
?>
<li id="pgPortfolio">
<div class="fullwidth"><?php echo $sql1['text']; ?></div>
</section>
</li>
<?php
$query = mysql_query("select * from acms_pages where id = 42");
$sql2 = mysql_fetch_array($query);
?>
<li id="pgServices">
<section class="content">
<div class="one_half_last"><?php echo $sql2['text']; ?></div>
</section>
</li>
<?php
$query = mysql_query("select * from acms_pages where id = 43");
$sql3 = mysql_fetch_array($query);
?>
<li id="pgPrices">
<section class="content">
<div class="one_half"><?php echo $sql3['text']; ?></div>
</section>
</li>

Answer 1

This probably belongs on programmers.stackexchange.com, but the general approach would be to rewrite your query as a single query, with the where clause including all four conditions OR'd together.
Then you can access each row independently and render the divs.

Answer 2

To answer your question (I think...) you can just use OR in your query:
mysql_query("select * from acms_pages where id = 40 OR id = 41 OR id = 42");
However, you should be using the mysqli instead:
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "mydb");
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "select * from acms_pages where id = 40 OR id = 41 OR id = 42"))
{
printf("Select returned %d rows.\n", mysqli_num_rows($result));
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)) {
printf ("%s", $row[0]); //first column value here
}
/* free result set */
mysqli_free_result($result);
}