I populate an array with the results of three SQL queries. Then I create a temporary table, insert all this data into it then query the table to be able to pass the result as a json array to my Java app (Android).
So.
$i=0;
try {
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT APPID FROM COMMENTROOM WHERE BADGEID=? GROUP BY APPID");
$stmt->execute(array($badgeID));
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$row2[$i][0] = $row['APPID'];
$i++;
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
$server_dir = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
header('Location: http://' . $server_dir);
exit();
}
for ($i=0; $i<count($row2); $i++)
{
try {
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT APPNAME, MARKETLINK, FILENAME, USERID FROM TABLE_ADS WHERE ID=?");
$stmt->execute(array($row2[$i][0]));
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$row2[$i][1] = $row['APPNAME'];
$row2[$i][2] = $row['MARKETLINK'];
$row2[$i][3] = $row['FILENAME'];
$row2[$i][4] = $row['USERID'];
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
$server_dir = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
header('Location: http://' . $server_dir);
exit();
}
}
for ($i=0; $i<count($row2); $i++)
{
try {
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT BADGEID FROM REG_USERS WHERE ID=?");
$stmt->execute(array($row2[$i][4]));
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$row2[$i][5] = $row['BADGEID'];
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
$server_dir = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
header('Location: http://' . $server_dir);
exit();
}
}
Then finally after I inserted the data from the $row2 array into the temporary table I do
try {
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT * FROM TEMP_COMMENTLIST");
$stmt->execute();
while ($row = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$output[] = $row;
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
$server_dir = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
header('Location: http://' . $server_dir);
exit();
}
print(json_encode($output));
The output looks like
[[{"APPID":"0000000021","APPNAME":"Enhanced Email","MARKETLINK":"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.qs.enhancedemail","FILENAME":"00000000089_2013-10-23 13:26:38_Enhanced Email.png","USERID":"00000000089","BADGEID":"2626511"},{"APPID":"0000000037","APPNAME":"Mobile....
However I think there must be a better solution than messing with this temporary table thing. Is a there a way to create the SAME output from the $row2 array without any more sql queries?
SOLUTION: I mixed hotzu's and SoaperGEM's solution:
$result = array();
try{
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT c.APPID, t.APPNAME, t.MARKETLINK, t.FILENAME, t.USERID, c.BADGEID FROM COMMENTROOM c
INNER JOIN TABLE_ADS t ON t.ID = c.APPID
INNER JOIN REG_USERS r ON r.ID = t.USERID
WHERE c.BADGEID = ?
GROUP BY c.APPID");
$stmt->execute(array($badgeID));
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
$result[] = $row;
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
$server_dir = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
header('Location: http://' . $server_dir);
exit();
}
echo "[".json_encode($result)."]";
exit();
EDITED
Try this:
$result = array();
try{
$stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT c.APPID, t.APPNAME, t.MARKETLINK, t.FILENAME, t.USERID, r.BADGEID FROM COMMENTROOM c
LEFT JOIN TABLE_ADS t ON t.ID = c.APPID
LEFT JOIN REG_USERS r ON r.ID = t.USERID
WHERE c.APPID = ?
GROUP BY c.APPID";
$stmt->execute(array($badgeID));
while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
$result[] = $row;
}
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo 'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
echo json_encode($result);
This is really more of a SQL question than anything else. Have you never used JOINs in SQL before? All you need to do is something like this:
SELECT c.APPID, t.APPNAME, t.MARKETLINK, t.FILENAME, t.USERID, r.BADGEID
FROM COMMENTROOM c
INNER JOIN TABLE_ADS t ON c.APPID = t.ID
INNER JOIN REG_USERS r ON r.ID = t.USERID