I am trying to run a query to determine if a column A is true. If its true, get the contents of a different column B (possible array separated by ",") and use those contents to query a different table. My problem is, column B may be one number or may be 10 numbers all separated by "," and I need to query the second table for a column for each of the numbers of the previous query. If someone can help that would be great.
edit: I tried to use the array explode function but can't figure out how to query the next table to include those values.
I picture it being something like
query = select * from table where location = arrayValue[1] or location = arrayValue[2]
Adaptation of Telmo Marques here but improved :
<?php
//Let's say $bcolumn is a string with the values of B column, separated by colons
$bcolumnArray = explode(",", $bcolumn);
array_walk($bcolumnArray, 'htmlentities');
//Build SQL query
$SQL = 'SELECT * FROM table';
if(count($bcolumnArray)){
$SQL.= ' WHERE IN ("'.implode('", "', $vbcolumnArray).'")';
}
//Query your second table here
$Qry = mysql_query($sql);
// Results here :
while($Res = mysql_fetch_assoc($Qry)){
print_r($Res);
}
?>
I would suggest PDO also... take a look : PDO.
Use PHP's explode()
function to transform your string into an array.
<?php
//Let's say $bcolumn is a string with the values of B column, separated by colons
$bcolumnArray = explode(",", $bcolumn);
//Build SQL query
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE ";
for($i=0; $i < count($bcolumnArray); $i++)
{
$sql .= "location = " . $value;
if($i != count($bcolumnArray)-1)
{
$sql .= " or ";
}
}
//Query your second table here
mysql_query($sql);
?>
Documentation: http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php