PHP: table structure - php

Question

I'm developing a website that has some audio courses, each course can have multiple lessons. I want to display each course in its own table with its different lessons.
This is my SQL statement:
Table: courses
id, title
Table: lessons
id, cid (course id), title, date, file
$sql = "SELECT lessons.*, courses.title AS course FROM lessons INNER JOIN courses ON courses.id = lessons.cid GROUP BY lessons.id ORDER BY lessons.id" ;
Can someone help me with the PHP code?
This is the I code I have written:
mysql_select_db($database_config, $config);
mysql_query("set names utf8");
$sql = "SELECT lessons.*, courses.title AS course FROM lessons INNER JOIN courses ON courses.id = lessons.cid GROUP BY lessons.id ORDER BY lessons.id" ;
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo "<p><span class='heading1'>" . $row['course'] . "</span> </p> ";
echo "<p class='datum'>Posted onder <a href='*'>*</a>, latest update on " . strftime("%A %d %B %Y %H:%M", strtotime($row['date']));
}
echo "</p>";
echo "<class id='text'>";
echo "<p>...</p>";
echo "<table border: none cellpadding='1' cellspacing='1'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>Nr.</th>";
echo "<th width='450'>Lesso</th>";
echo "<th>Date</th>";
echo "<th>Download</th>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['nr'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['title'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . strftime("%d/%m/%Y", strtotime($row['date'])) . "</td>";
echo "<td><a href='audio/" . rawurlencode($row['file']) . "'>MP3</a></td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
echo "<br>";
}
?>

Answer 1

One thing that comes to mind is you're starting with lessons and pulling the course details over with it. That means you're going to have a new row per lesson with a joined course. You may want to sort by course (so they're grouped) then (in PHP) keep a tally of "current course". When the course changes, switch to new heading paragraph, table, etc.
Pseudo code:
$currentCourse = null; // intitialize the course
$query = your select sorted by course;
while ($row in $query)
{
if ($currentCourse != $row['course'])
{
if (!is_null($currentCourse))
{
// there was a course before it, close the current one
}
// begin setting up heading1, table beginning, etc.
$currentCourse = $row['course']; // set this as the active course
}
// dump the current row as a table entry
}
// close the table (same code as in the second if statement)

Answer 2

You close the while loop on line 8 of your code block. Remove that '}' on line 8.
Also the HTML element doesn't exists!
I think I know what's your problem. You need a while loop that loops al the "courses" and in that loop you execute a second query where you select the lessons where the course_id is equal to the current course id you're looping. A little dummy code for you.
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM courses"))) {
//display the course
while($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM lessons WHERE course_id=" . $row['id']))) {
//display the lessons of that course
}
}
?>