Growing a list of links from a query - php

Question

I have the following code, which will retrieve a filename from a table and make a link to it. What I want to do, is have it so I can refer to $filesList later on, and it will contain a single block of html code with links to as many files as there are files.
I thought adding to the previous variable would be the easiest way to do this, but it actually outputs nonsense code: 0test.sh">test.sh
if ($getFiles = $con->prepare($filesQuery)) {
$getFiles->bind_param("s", $pk);
$getFiles->execute();
$getFiles->bind_result($FILENAME);
$files = array();
while ($getFiles->fetch()) {
$filename = array(
'FILENAME' => $FILENAME,
);
$files[] = $filename;
}
}
$filesList = '';
foreach ($files as $filenames)
{
$filesList = $filesList + '<p>'. $filenames['FILENAME'] .'' . "\n";
};
Sureley I do not need to have an array for what i want to do?

Answer 1

You need to change that code to:
$filesList = '';
foreach ($files as $filenames)
{
$filesList .= '<p>'. $filenames['FILENAME'] ."</p>\n";
};
Does that help? You cannot concatenate with +.

Answer 2

One thing that I immediately spot is that you have $filesList = $filesList + ... Use a dot and not a + -sign.
Try this
$filesList = $filesList . "<p>{$filenames['FILENAME']}";

Answer 3

Have you tried something like this?
(Untested code, as I am not at home)
if ($getFiles = $con->prepare($filesQuery)) {
$getFiles->bind_param("s", $pk);
$getFiles->execute();
$getFiles->bind_result($FILENAME);
$files = array();
while ($getFiles->fetch()) {
$filesList = $filesList + '<p>'. $FILENAME .'' . "\n";
}