I am having a small trouble retrieving results that I hope someone can help me with.
I have a field called $incategory which is a comma based string, and what I want to do is explode the into an array that can be used to retrieve results as below (Hope that makes sense):
<?php
$showlist = $row_listelements['incategory'];
// ** e.g. $incategory = 1,3,5,
// ** What I want to do is look at table 'category'
// ** and retrieve results with an 'id' of either 1, 3 or 5
// ** Display Results
mysql_select_db($database_db, $db);
$query_display = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE id = ".$showlist." ORDER BY name ASC";
$display = mysql_query($query_display, $db) or die(mysql_error());
$row_display = mysql_fetch_assoc($display);
$totalRows_display = mysql_num_rows($display);
?>
You can use the IN keyword of SQL directly like this.
query_display = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE id IN (".$showlist.") ORDER BY name ASC";
Another tip would be to stop using MYSQL_QUERY as it is deprecated in PHP 5.3
Edit: If $showlist = '1,3,5,' you will need to remove the last comma from the string to make it useable in the query. Just use this query then
query_display = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE id IN ('".str_replace(",", "','", substr($showlist, -1))."') ORDER BY name ASC";
Use explode function and use ,
as delimiter.
refer here http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_explode.asp
Hope this helps.
First, you have explode the $incategory
string into an array containing all of the category number. For example:
$incategory = explode(",", $incategory);
And then you just have to execute this query:
$query_display = "SELECT * FROM category WHERE id = "
. $incategory[$i] . " ORDER BY name ASC";
The $i
should be defined beforehand (usually using loop).