I am trying to create a table that shows the date of a training plan, the plan its self and the members of the group that can attend. The first two are no problem but its who can attend that is the issue. The attendees is stored as a string in the database and explode it to an array but when i use a foreach loop to display the arrays it adds the previous row to the next.
The code I have is:
$sql_group_name = mysqli_query($db_conx,"SELECT groupName,accepted FROM maingroup");
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($sql_group_name)){
$accepted= $row["accepted"];
$groupName = $row["groupName"];
$accept_array = explode(",", $accepted);
if (in_array($u,$accept_array)){
$sql = "SELECT * FROM training WHERE groupName='$groupName' ORDER BY sessDate ASC";
$training_query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($training_query, MYSQLI_ASSOC)) {
$id = $row["id"];
$date = $row["sessDate"];
$session = htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($row['plan']), ENT_QUOTES);
$groupName = $row["groupName"];
$attending = $row["attending"];
$attend_array = explode(",",$attending);
foreach($attend_array as $value){
$attendList .= "" .$value. "<br/>";
}
if (in_array($u,$attend_array)){
$attendBtn = '<form name="sessUnAttend" id="sessUnAttend" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Unattend">
<input type="hidden" name="id" id="id" value="' .$id. '">
<input type="hidden" name="unattend" id="unattend">
</form>';
} else { $attendBtn = '<form name="sessAttend" id="sessAttend" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="Attend">
<input type="hidden" name="id" id="id" value="' .$id. '">
<input type="hidden" name="attend" id="attend">
</form>';
}
$sessTable .= '<tr>
<td>' .$date. '</td>
<td>' .$session. '</td>
<td>' .$groupName. '</td>
<td>' .$attendList. '</td>
<td>' .$attendBtn. '</td>
</tr>';
}
}
}
the result I get is:
Date | Plan | Attending
4.4.16 | some plan | me
5.4.16 | some plan | me, me
6.4.16 | some plan | me, me
Obviuosly "me" can only attend once. It would keep repeating me,me until some one else said they could attend and then add their name and repeat that until some one else said the could attend and so on.
I have read that the while loop should be mysqli_fetch_assoc
instead of mysqli_fetch_array
but that seems to mess every thing else up.