What problem i am having right now, is that there is a while loop to post my topics retrieved from MySQL. Works perfectly fine, until I get into inputting data. I have recently created a comment system, where for each topic there will be a comment box to submit. The problem is the while loop runs it over and over again, so when i type a comment for one topic, it posts to all of them. Here is my code:
//MYSQLI LOGIN DETAILS
$servername = "***";
$username = "***";
$password = "***";
$dbname = "***";
//MYSQLI CREATE CONNECTION
$constatus = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
//MYSQLI CHECK CONNECTION
if ($constatus->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $constatus->connect_error);
}
//MYSQLI COUNT COLUMNS
$sql = "SELECT NEWSID, AUTHOR, ADMINSTS, DATE, HEADING, ARTICLE FROM news ORDER BY NEWSID DESC";
$result = $constatus->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo
"<div class=newsboard_topic>" .
"<div class=newsboard_authordate>" . $row["AUTHOR"];
if ($row["ADMINSTS"] == admin) {
echo
"<div class=newsboard_adminfx>
Admin
</div>";
} else if ($row["ADMINSTS"] == sadmin) {
echo
"<div class=newsboard_sadminfx>
Super Admin
</div>";
}
if ($_SESSION['adminsts'] == 'admin' || $_SESSION['adminsts'] == 'sadmin') {
echo "<span class=newsboard_adminactions> <img src='/image/remove.png' style='width:20px; height:20px;'> </span>";
}
echo
"<span class=date>" . $row["DATE"] .
"</span></div>
<h1>" . $row["HEADING"].
"</h1><p class=newsboard_topic_article>" .
$row["ARTICLE"] .
"</p>";
$sqlcomments = "SELECT newscomments.USERID, newscomments.COMMENT, userdata.FIRSTNAME, userdata.LASTNAME, userdata.ADMINSTATUS FROM newscomments JOIN userdata ON newscomments.USERID=userdata.ID WHERE NEWSID=$row[NEWSID] ORDER BY COMMENTID DESC";
$resultcomments = $constatus->query($sqlcomments);
echo "<div class=newsboard_comments>
Comments
<br>";
while($rowcomments = $resultcomments->fetch_assoc()) {
echo $rowcomments["FIRSTNAME"] . " " . $rowcomments["LASTNAME"] . " " . $rowcomments["COMMENT"] . "<br>";
}
if (isset($_SESSION['loggedon']) && $_SESSION['loggedon'] == true) {
echo '
<form method="post">
<input class=postheadline type="text" name="comment" />
<input class=submit type="submit" id="submit" name="submit" value="Comment"/>
</form>';
if (isset($_POST[submit])) {
if (!empty($_POST[comment])) {
$sqlcommentpost = "INSERT INTO newscomments (NEWSID, USERID, COMMENT) VALUES ('$row[NEWSID]', '$_SESSION[profileid]', '$_POST[comment]')";
if ($constatus->query($sqlcommentpost) === TRUE) {
echo "Posted Successfully!";
break;
} else {
echo "Fatal Error. Please try again";
break;
}
}
}
}
echo "</div></div>"; /*Ends newsboard_topic Div & newsboard_comments Div*/
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
}
Live example is online at www.geovillageva.com however you cannot see comments as it is for registered members only because it will have a name for posters.
