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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Listing Inventory Items Displaying All Products

Posted by amandeep kaur bhangal
amandeep kaur bhangal
615 Points

can u help me with my code

class function that is retrieving values from db

public function retrieveFun() { include 'inc/main.php';//connecting to db.

    $result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM db  order by name DESC");


    while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
      {
        $var = array('name' =>$row['name'] ,
                      'owner'=>$row['owner'],
                      'date'=>$row['date'] );
        // echo $var["name"]."<br/>";
        // echo $var["owner"]."<br/>";
        // echo $var["date"]."<br/><br/>";
        return array($var["name"],$var["owner"],$var["date"]);

}}

and code where i want to display all the rows retrieved in desired format

$obj = new classname(); $id= $obj->retrieveFun();

echo //here i want to display all the rows retrieved in table format. Please help me out as soon as possible

1 Answer

Alex Looper
Alex Looper
2,098 Points
Alex Looper
Alex Looper
2,098 Points

I don't know if I understand you question, or if you have even asked one, but try this:

  1. Make sure you're connected to your database. Then you can do this.
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM db ORDER BY name DESC");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){

$name = $row['name']; //name is a column in your db
$owner = $row['owner']; //owner is a column in your db
$date = $row['date']; //date is a column in your db
}

$printoutput .= "<table width='500' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>
             <tr><td> ". $name . "</td></tr>
             <tr><td>$" . $owner . "</td></tr>
             <tr><td>". $date . "</td></tr></table>

echo $printoutput;

I'm not sure what this is, $obj = new classname(); $id= $obj->retrieveFun(); Or what you meant by this, but I hope this helps.