Display image in div based on value in Database - php

Question

I have been working on a project but I have reached a point where I am stuck. I have a database that contains the the working status of some mahcines. The values for the status go from 1-5. I need to be able to display a different image for each machine in a webpage based off of the value that appears in the database for that Mahcine. I am drawing a big blank on how to do this. Im using a MySQL DB and everything is written in PHP.
Basically it this. If a machine has a status value of 1 then it shows a green image. If the value is 2 then it would be yellow and so on. . .
Hope you guys can help

Answer 1

You can try something like this:
// your mysql select, wich contains the machine data.
$query = mysql_query("select the data about machines...");
// you iterate on the result set and fetch each row to $data
while($data = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
switch($data['machine'])
{
case "machine type 1": // you can put integer values here as well, like case 1:
echo '<img src="first_machine.jpg" alt = "first machine" />'
break;
case "machine type 2":
echo '<img src="second_machine.jpg" alt = "second machine" />'
break;
default: // undefinied
echo '<img src = "undefinied.jpg" alt = "undefinied" />'
}
}

Answer 2

Don't use the img tag, instead create a div for which you apply a style class same as the machine status value
<div class="machine status<?php echo $status;?>" ></div>
now in your css,
.status1{
background-image:url(red.jpg);
}
.status2{
background-image:url(green.jpg);
}
.status3{
background-image:url(jpg.jpg);
}
.machine{
width:50px;
height:50px;
}

Answer 3

Ok you can't display multiple images within a image/jpeg page...
You're telling the browser that the page is image/jpeg (in other words, the page is AN IMAGE) but you're echoing out multiple image data
You should rather use the gallery page to show all images like this:
<?php
// $images = result from database of all image rows
foreach ($images as $img) echo '<img src="img.php?id='.$img["id"].'">';
?>
and in img.php:
// Load the image data for id in $_GET['id'];
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
echo $data;