Hello this code works but currently it is very repetitive.
I have been trying for a few days now, and I just cannot work out how to rewrite these separate SELECTs into one loop using arrays.
I would like to push about 20 entries, so if I cannot work out how to do the loop then its going to messy! :(
I would be grateful for any help with the first loop and from that I will try and solve the rest myself from that advice, Thanks..
// Create 6 random numbers from table
$ran_num = (RandomInRange(1,$total,6));
// Select data from table from a random row
$grab1 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[0]'";
$grab2 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[1]'";
$grab3 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[2]'";
$grab4 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[3]'";
$grab5 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[4]'";
$grab6 = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$ran_num[5]'";
$result1 = $mysqli->query($grab1);
$result2 = $mysqli->query($grab2);
$result3 = $mysqli->query($grab3);
$result4 = $mysqli->query($grab4);
$result5 = $mysqli->query($grab5);
$result6 = $mysqli->query($grab6);
// Convert result into an array called items
$item1 = mysqli_fetch_row($result1);
$item2 = mysqli_fetch_row($result2);
$item3 = mysqli_fetch_row($result3);
$item4 = mysqli_fetch_row($result4);
$item5 = mysqli_fetch_row($result5);
$item6 = mysqli_fetch_row($result6);
I managed to solve this with help on this thread.. I replaced all this code with:
// Create 6 random numbers from table
$ran_num = (RandomInRange(1,$total,6));
foreach ($ran_num as $key => $value) {
$grab[$key] = "select * from stock_tbl where stock_id='$value'";
$result = $mysqli->query($grab[$key]);
$item[$key] = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
}
Thank you very much :)