I am trying to show all of the users in the users column of my database but nothing is showing up. I want to have a ranking of users based on the number of likes they get. My query looks fine to me but it's not showing anything. No warnings, errors or the output I am calling for. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong ? I've checked all the answers for about an hour, then I tried to use the prepared statements that I already have. But nothing works.
This is the whole page:
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
error_reporting(-1);
require 'includes/header.php';
$stmt = $con->prepare('SELECT username, num_likes FROM users WHERE username = ? ORDER BY num_likes DESC ');
$stmt->bind_param('s', $username);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
$stmt->bind_result($username, $num_likes);
// output data of each row
while ($stmt -> fetch()) {
echo '<div id="rcorners2">';
echo '<p id="p2">' . $username . '</p>';
echo '<p id="p4">' . $num_likes . '</p>';
echo'</div>';
echo'</br>';
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User's Ranks</title>
<style type="text/css">
#rcorners2 {
border-radius: 5px;
border: 2px solid #8c8c8c;
padding: 20px;
width: 500px;
word-wrap: break-word;
height: 200px;
overflow-x: hidden;
margin-left: 350px;
}
#p2 {
float:left;
color: #000000;
margin-top: -10;
font-size: 20px;
}
#p4 {
float:left;
color: #000000;
margin-top: -1%;
font-size: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
You are also ouputting the result of the query before you output the HTML <!DOCTYPE html>
and other base parts of the HTML Document. So even if you get any rows they will not appear in the document
If you output your info in the Document <body>
it will show on the page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User's Ranks</title>
<style type="text/css">
#rcorners2 {
border-radius: 5px;
border: 2px solid #8c8c8c;
padding: 20px;
width: 500px;
word-wrap: break-word;
height: 200px;
overflow-x: hidden;
margin-left: 350px;
}
#p2 {
float:left;
color: #000000;
margin-top: -10;
font-size: 20px;
}
#p4 {
float:left;
color: #000000;
margin-top: -1%;
font-size: 20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
error_reporting(-1);
require 'includes/header.php';
$stmt = $con->prepare('SELECT username, num_likes
FROM users WHERE username = ?
ORDER BY num_likes DESC ');
$stmt->bind_param('s', $username);
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
$stmt->bind_result($username, $num_likes);
// output data of each row
while ($stmt -> fetch()) {
echo '<div id="rcorners2">';
echo '<p id="p2">' . $username . '</p>';
echo '<p id="p4">' . $num_likes . '</p>';
echo'</div>';
echo'</br>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
You also say you want ALL your users to dispay, so the query may also need changing to get all users where yours gets only one.
$result = $con->query('SELECT username, num_likes
FROM users
ORDER BY num_likes DESC ');
// output data of each row
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo '<div id="rcorners2">';
echo '<p id="p2">' . $row['username'] . '</p>';
echo '<p id="p4">' . $row['num_likes'] . '</p>';
echo'</div>';
echo'</br>';