On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may be more of a MySQL question than PHP, but I'm hoping someone
> can point me in the right direction. I have working code (below) that pulls
> data from a particular category in our db. I'd like to be able to pull data
> from multiple categories in the same db and place them on the same page.
>
> I've been working on this for the last 4 days with no luck. Some
> pages say that you can't do multiple MySQL queries while others say there is
> a workaround but I haven't found it. Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
> --------
>
> <?php require_once("/home/balcone/db_login.php"); ?> // in header
>
> <?php
> $item_list = "";
> $cat1 = "01100-01200-01300-06403";
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT itemid,description,unitprice FROM
> catalog WHERE categories='" . $cat1 . "' ORDER BY itemid",$db);
>
> while ($item = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
> {
> $item_list .= "<tr><td>" . $item['itemid'] . "</td>
> <td><a href=\".../shop.cgi?c=detail.htm&itemid=" .
> $item['itemid'] . "=1\">". $item['description'] ."</a></td>
> <td align=\"right\">$". money_format('%i', $item['unitprice'])
> ."</td>
> <td></tr>";
> }
> echo "<table border=\"1\"><tr><th>Item ID</th><th>Description<br /><font
> size=\"-1\">(Click for more info)</font></th><th>Price
> Each</th><th>Purchase</th></tr>$item_list</table>";
> ?>
>
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change it to an IN clause for the categories
$result = mysql_query("SELECT itemid,description,unitprice FROM
catalog WHERE categories in('$cat1',"$cat2',$cat3','$catN') ORDER BY
itemid",$db);
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