Re: Loop issues

Dan Shirah wrote:

Hello all, I am having trouble trying to figure out how I should compose this loop to give me ALL the results I want. Below are my queries. I am querying two different databases to pull in records that match the requested $id. I am then putting the result into a $variable and also counting the number of rows returned. These queries work just fine and pull in all of the data that I want...and by viewing the print_r() I have verified that all the information was returned. <?php $get_cs = "SELECT DISTINCT

      request_type, card_id, first_name, last_name
       FROM
         support_payment_request
       WHERE
         card_id = '$id'";
    $cs_type = mssql_query($get_cs) or die(mssql_get_last_message());
    $cs_num = mssql_num_rows($cs_type);

    if($cs_num > 0) {

while ($cs_row = mssql_fetch_array($cs_type)) {

    $cs_type2 = $cs_row['request_type'];
    $cs_first = $cs_row['first_name'];
    $cs_last = $cs_row['last_name'];
    $cs_name = $cs_first." ".$cs_last;
     print_r ($cs_row);
    }

} $get_tr = "SELECT DISTINCT

      request_type, card_id, first_name, last_name
       FROM
         payment_request
       WHERE
         card_id = '$id'";
    $tr_type = mssql_query($get_tr) or die(mssql_get_last_message());
    $tr_num = mssql_num_rows($tr_type);

    if($tr_num > 0) {

while ($tr_row = mssql_fetch_array($tr_type)) {

    $tr_type2 = $tr_row['request_type'];
    $tr_first = $tr_row['first_name'];
    $tr_last = $tr_row['last_name'];
    $tr_name = $tr_first." ".$tr_last;
     print_r ($tr_row);
    }

} $num_total = $cs_num + $tr_num; $multiple = "MULTIPLE"; ?> Here is where I am running into problems. First I am writing an if () statement to see if there were any rows returned from the queries. If a row was returned I am echoing out the data that was assigned to the different variables above. This works...kind of... <td width='89' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><div align='center'><?php echo "<a href='javascript:editRecord($id)'>$id</a>"; ?></div></td> <td width='172' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><div align='center'><?php if ($cs_num > 0) { echo "$cs_name<br />\n"; }

                      if ($tr_num > 0) { echo "$tr_name<br />\n";

} ?></div></td> <td width='201' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><div align='center'><?php echo "$dateTime"; ?></div></td> <td width='158' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><div align='center'><?php if ($num_total > 1) { echo $multiple; }

                      if ($num_total == 1 && $cs_num == 1) { echo $cs_type2;

}

                      if ($num_total == 1 && $tr_num == 1) { echo $tr_type2;

} ?></div></td> <td width='160' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><div align='center'><?php echo "$last_processed_by"; ?></div></td> If a single row was returned by the query, all of the information echos out just fine. BUT, If one of the queries returned more than one row, the information that is echo'd out is only the LAST row's information. For example, the result of my $cs_type query returns 3 names: John Smith, Jane Smith, James Smith. The only information being populated to my table is James Smith. Because of this I think I need to put a loop where the echo "$cs_name<br />\n"; is so it will loop through all of the returned names and show them all. I have tried a for, foreach and while loop but I just can't seem to wrap my fingers around the right way to use it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Dan What about something like this?

<?php $records = array(); $SQL = "SELECT DISTINCT request_type, card_id, first_name, last_name FROM support_payment_request WHERE card_id = '$id'"; $cs_type = mssql_query($SQL) or die(mssql_get_last_message()); if ( $cs_type ) { while ($records[] = $record = mssql_fetch_array($cs_type)) { print_r ($record); } } $SQL = "SELECT DISTINCT request_type, card_id, first_name, last_name FROM payment_request WHERE card_id = '$id'"; $tr_type = mssql_query($get_tr) or die(mssql_get_last_message()); if ( $tr_type ) { while ( $records[] = $record = mssql_fetch_array($tr_type)) { print_r ($record); } } if ( count($records) ) { echo '<table>'; foreach ( $records AS $id => $row ) { echo <<<ROW <tr> <td width='89' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'><a href='javascript:editRecord({$row['card_id']})'>{$row['card_id']}</a></td> <td width='172' height='13' align='center' class='tblcell'>{$row['first_name']} {$row['last_name']}</td> </tr> ROW; } echo '</table>'; } ?> Obviously, this is completely untested. You should be able to run it. I took out the table cells that had to do with the date/time and the total, Not sure where you were getting that information from. But this should give you a little better idea on how to do it. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare