retrieve and display php array values when retrieving all records from data

[amna zafar]

I am displaying the complete record of the user in the My profile section, I am fetching all the rows , but the problem is within the rows I've got two fields as arrays, which are 'secondarySubject' and 'secondaryGrade' now I want the display to be something like this

2002-2004 ----------- A Level ------- School Name

                  Science          A
                  Maths            B

I am able to display them but it prints the dates, school name and level name with every subject rather than just once for all the subjects. I am posting my code, can someone pleaseeee help me with it.

$result2 = $db->query('

    SELECT *

    FROM secondaryEducation

    WHERE userID = "'.$graduateID.'"

    ORDER BY secondaryFinishDate DESC

    ');



    $totalRows2 = mysql_num_rows($result2);

    if($totalRows2 > 0)

    {

        $html .= '<h2>Secondary Education: '.$option.'</h2>';


        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2))

        {



            $startYear = formatDate($row['secondaryStartDate'], 'Y');

            $finishYear = formatDate($row['secondaryFinishDate'], 'Y');

            if (!empty($row['secondaryGrade']))

                $secondaryGrade = getSecondaryGradeName($row['secondaryGrade']);

            else

                $secondaryGrade = $row['secondaryGradeCustom'];

            $html .= '



                <div class="secondaryListing">

                    <div><strong>'.$startYear.' - '.$finishYear.' '.stripslashes($row['secondarySchool']).'</strong></div>

                    <div>'.stripslashes(getSecondaryLevelName($row['secondaryLevel'])).' in '.stripslashes(getSecondarySubjectName($row['secondarySubject'])).' - '.stripSlashes($secondaryGrade).'</div>

                </div><!-- End education listing -->



            ';



        }



    }

[diafol]

am able to display them but it prints the dates, school name and level name with every subject rather than just once for all the subjects. I am posting my code, can someone pleaseeee help me with it.

Take the dates, school name out of the while loop. Print them before the loop.

[amna zafar]

@diafol

That loop is to print all records, when i take them out it just prints it for one records and not all, please can you help me out with this? How can i have two nested loops? first one to loop through all rows and second one to check if school name is the same?

[jstfsklh211]

school = "";
loop (rows) {
    if rows[school] != school {
        print school
        school = rows[school]
    }
    do other stuff
}

[orochiwolf]

can you post your database structure.

[amna zafar]

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[diafol]

This DB is not normalised. You should have related tables.

I'm assuming that the user will only have one school, otherwise it needs to be a little different.

userschool

userschool_id [PK]
user_id [FK]
school_id [FK]
school_startdate
school_finishdate

school

school_id [PK]
schoolname
...

user

user_id [PK]
username
pw
...

qualifications

qual_id [PK]
qualname
quallevel_id [FK]
subject_id [FK]
customgradetype_id - not constrained - uses gradetype_id from qualification_level table if set to NULL/0

qualification_level

quallevel_id [PK]
quallevel
gradetype_id [FK]

gradetypes

gradetype_id [PK]
gradetype (title, e.g. Single GCSE, BTEC Single)
grades (string list)*

• this could be broken down further again to more tables.

Anyway, something to think about.