将单个SQL SELECT语句查询结果分配给PHP变量

Question

Hi there I have a website which takes in a Car brand and generates a Car Id result which corresponds to a database. Although there are many solutions available for storing a sql query result to a variable but in this case it does not seem to work.

I have already tried the sql statement in the database and it works with 1 result output which is right.

<?php 
session_start();
include "dbconn.php";


$carcat = $_SESSION['selectedcarcat'];
$carbrand = $_POST['carbrand'];
$userid = $_SESSION['loginid'];
$username = $_SESSION['loginname'];
$startdate = $_POST['date1'];
$enddate = $_POST['date2'];
$pick = $_POST['pickuploc'];
$return = $_POST['returnloc'];
$calqty = 0;


    $selcaridsql = "SELECT carid FROM cars WHERE brand='$carbrand' ";

    $caridresult = $dbcnx->query($selcaridsql);

    $caridrow = mysql_fetch_object($caridresult);

    $carid = $caridrow['carid'];

    if (!$caridresult) 
    {
        $errmessage = "Your carid select query failed.";
        echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$errmessage');</script>";
    }


    echo '<br>Debug 1 ';
    echo '<br>The selected qty is '
        .$qtyresult1.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The calculated qty is '
        .$calqty.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content carid is '
        .$carid.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content userid is '
        .$userid.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content start is '
        .$startdate.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content end is '
        .$enddate.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content pick is '
        .$pick.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content return is '
        .$return.'<br />';
        echo '<br>The content carbrand is '
        .$carbrand.'<br />';
?>

The error occurs with a blank result shown at the "Content carid is". After going through the forums it seems that the variable $carid has no value which I may have inferred wrongly.

The echo results:

Debug 1 
The selected qty is 

The calculated qty is 0

The content carid is 

The content userid is 

The content start is 2016-10-28

The content end is 2016-10-29

The content pick is jurong

The content return is bishan

The content carbrand is Honda

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Answer 1

Apparently after using var_dump to debug the problem as stated by Chris, the problem was narrowed down to the NULL value that was collected by the mysql_fetch_object($caridresult);. As the DB connection utilizes @$dbcnx = new mysqli('localhost','values','values','values'); the DB class is wrong for retrieving the array values. Therefore the solution would be mysqli_fetch_array.

These codes might be helpful for those trying the debug:

<?php // register.php
session_start();
include "dbconn.php";


$carcat = $_SESSION['selectedcarcat'];
$carbrand = $_POST['carbrand'];
$userid = $_SESSION['loginid'];
$username = $_SESSION['loginname'];
$startdate = $_POST['date1'];
$enddate = $_POST['date2'];
$pick = $_POST['pickuploc'];
$return = $_POST['returnloc'];
$calqty = 0;


    $selcaridsql = "SELECT carid FROM cars WHERE brand='$carbrand' ";
    
    echo $selcaridsql."<br>";

    $caridresult = $dbcnx->query($selcaridsql);

    echo "<br>".var_dump($caridresult);

    if ($caridresult->num_rows >0 )
      {
        // if they are in the database register the user id
        echo '<br>Hello more than 1 <br>';  
      }

    else
    {
        echo '<br>Hello less than 1 <br>';
    }


    $caridrow = mysqli_fetch_array($caridresult);

    echo var_dump($caridrow)."<br>"; 

    $carid = $caridrow['carid'];

    echo var_dump($carid)."<br>"; 
    
    if (!$caridresult) 
    {
        $errmessage = "Your carid select query failed.";
        echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('$errmessage');</script>";
    }

    echo '<br>Debug 1 ';
    echo '<br>The selected qty is '
        .$qtyresult1.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The calculated qty is '
        .$calqty.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content carid is '
        .$carid.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content userid is '
        .$userid.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content start is '
        .$startdate.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content end is '
        .$enddate.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content pick is '
        .$pick.'<br />';
    echo '<br>The content return is '
        .$return.'<br />';
        echo '<br>The content carbrand is '
        .$carbrand.'<br />';
?>

Special Thanks to Chris for helping to find the error!

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