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PDO: how to populate html table with rows from database table?


This is my table info in DB.

id         name        age
1          Vale        23      
2          Alex        13
3          Scott       15
4          Tino        18

I have 2 select box and when i pick "Vale" from first and "Scoot" from second selectbox, i like to generate table like this:

 id         name        age
 1          Vale        23      
 3          Scott       15

Selectbox.

<select name="name1">
   <option value="Vale">Vale</option>
   <option value="Tino">Tino</option>
</select>

<select name="name2">
   <option value="Alex">Alex</option>
   <option value="Scoot">Scoot</option>
</select>
.
.
.

My page_to_process.php. What i need more, or where is my errors.

<?php
require('includes/config.php');\\CONNECTION to Database

$sql = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM info WHERE name = :name");
$sql->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$sql->execute([':name' => $name1]);


if($sql->rowCount() != 0) {

?>
<table border="0">
   <tr COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR="#6D8FFF">
      <td>ID</td>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Age</td>
   </tr>
 <?php     
 while($row=$sql->fetch()) 
 {
      echo "<tr>".
           "<td>".$row["id"]."</td>".
           "<td>".$row["name"]."</td>".
           "<td>".$row["age"]."</td>".
           "</tr>";
 }

}
else
{
     echo "don't exist records for list on the table";
}

?>
</table>

Solution

  • Try this approach:

    <?php
    require('includes/config.php');
    
    function get_info($dbh, $name)
    {
        $sql = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM info WHERE name = :name");
        $sql->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        $sql->execute([':name' => $name]);
        if ($row = $sql->fetch()) {
            return $row;
        }
        return false;
    }
    
    ?>
    
    
    <table border="0">
        <tr COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR="#6D8FFF">
            <td>ID</td>
            <td>Name</td>
            <td>Age</td>
        </tr>
        <?php
        if (isset($_POST['name1'])) {
            if ($row = get_info($dbh, $_POST['name1'])) {
                echo "<tr>" .
                    "<td>" . $row["id"] . "</td>" .
                    "<td>" . $row["name"] . "</td>" .
                    "<td>" . $row["age"] . "</td>" .
                    "</tr>";
            } else {
                echo "don't exist records for list on the table";
            }
        }
        ?>
    </table>