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DrJan-Itor
DrJan-Itor

Reputation: 33

Retrieving a category name from database

I have two tables in my database. One named jokes and the other named category.

jokes

CREATE TABLE `jokes` (
  `joke_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `joke` varchar(1024) NOT NULL,
  `category_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`joke_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=9 ;

category

CREATE TABLE `category` (
  `category_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(51) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`category_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=4 ;

My PHP which displays the jokes in a table

<?php
include 'database.php';
$pdo = Database::connect();
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM jokes ORDER BY joke_id DESC';
foreach ($pdo->query($sql) as $row) {
    echo '';
    echo '<table class="table">';
    echo '<thead>';
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<h3><th>Category Name</th></h3>';
    echo '<h3><th>Action</th></h3>';
    echo '<tbody>';
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<thead>';
    echo '<tbody>';
    echo '<tr>';
    echo '<td >' . $row['joke'] . '</td>';
    echo '<td width=250>';
    echo '<a class="btn-big white" href="read.php?id=' . $row['joke_id'] . '">Read</a>';
    echo '&nbsp;';
    echo '<a class="btn-big green" href="update.php?id=' . $row['joke_id'] . '">Update</a>';
    echo '&nbsp;';
    echo '<a class="btn-big red" href="delete.php?id=' . $row['joke_id'] . '">Delete</a>';
    echo '</td>';
    echo '</tr>';

}
Database::disconnect();
?>

My question is how would I get the joke's category_name to be displayed in the echo '<h3><th>Category name</th></h3>'; with PHP? Because at the moment, the table just displays a joke, without the category name of the joke. For example: Celebrity Joke: this is a celebrity joke.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 336

Answers (2)

Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones

Reputation: 1382

You should alter your query to include the category name.

SELECT j.joke AS joke, j.joke_id AS joke_id, c.name AS category 
FROM jokes j, category c 
WHERE j.category_id = c.category_id

After that, you can get the category by calling $row['category']

Upvotes: 1

Code Lღver
Code Lღver

Reputation: 15603

Use this query:

$sql = 'SELECT j.*, c.name 
        FROM jokes j 
         LEFT JOIN category c ON c.category_id = j.category_id 
         ORDER BY joke_id DESC';

And to echo the category name use: $row['name']

Upvotes: 0

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