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I'm really sorry for the poor explanation, I am absolutely not familiar with PHP. I would like to get data from my phpmyadmins 2 table, so I can display how many posts have been submitted with the same category type. One is called "posts" and the other one is called "categories". I have attached a picture to see the how it looks like. What I want is to make the category tables "id" equal to the posts tables "catagory_id", and then display how many posts have bben uploaded of each category. Here is how far I went with the coding, which is nowhere close to my expectations: <div class="stats__div"> <p class="stats__text">Categories</p> <p> <?php $all_categories_query = "SELECT * FROM categories ORDER BY title ASC"; $all_categories = mysqli_query($connection, $all_categories_query); while ($category = mysqli_fetch_assoc($all_categories)) : ?> <p><?= $category['title'] ?> <?= $category['id'] ?></p> <?php endwhile ?> <?php $all_posts_query = "SELECT * FROM posts GROUP BY category_id"; $all_posts = mysqli_query($connection, $all_posts_query); while ($posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($all_posts)) : ?> <p><?= $posts['category_id'] ?></p> <?php endwhile ?> </p> </p> </div> I know, the coding is at the edge of being horrible, I am really sorry for that. I have tried my best. Does anyone know how to do that? I have seen that the right solution is using "array_count_values", but all the examples I have seen were lists. Any kind of help is highly appreciated!

I've been trying to write some code that takes user supplied information, sends it to a database (phpmyadmin) and also displays it elsewhere in the app. I'm to the point I'm trying to get it to the database right now. The issue is that it's not making it to the DB and is being lost somewhere. There's no warnings, no errors, nothing being returned anywhere to help resolve the problem, except in the browsers dev tools and that is different whether it's chrome or FF. It's also something that I have trouble seeing being responsible for the loss of data. In Chrome it comes back as -> Page layout may be unexpected due to Quirks Mode In FF as -> Layout was forced before the page was fully loaded. If stylesheets are not yet loaded this may cause a flash of unstyled content. But, like I said, I can't see how this is to blame for the data not making it to the DB and I see no difference in the layout or style anyways. At the top of add_post.php is the following: <?php require("assets/initializations.php"); if(isset($_POST['add_post']) && !empty($_FILES['post_image'])) { $filename = $_FILES['post_image']['name']; $file_tmp_name = $_FILES['post_image']['tmp_name']; $filesize = $_FILES['post_image']['size']; $file_ext = explode('.', $filename); $file_act_ext = strtolower(end($file_ext)); $allowed = array('jpeg', 'jpg', 'png', 'gif'); if(!in_array($file_act_ext, $allowed)) { echo "<script>alert('File Type Not Allowed');</script>"; //not sure how well this size check is working, have to experiment more //also need to research how to do an initial image check } elseif($filesize > 10000000) { echo "<script>alert('Image Is Too Large');</script>"; } else { $file_new_name = uniqid('', true) . "." . $file_act_ext; $dir = "/opt/lampp/htdocs/qcic/usernet/img/"; $target_file = $dir . basename($file_new_name); move_uploaded_file($file_tmp_name, $target_file); $post_obj->addNews( $_POST['title'], $_POST['content'], $_POST['category'], $_POST['status'], $_POST['post_type'], $_POST['tags'], $target_file ); echo "<script>alert('Your Post Has Been Added');</script>"; mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR|MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT); } } ?> <?php require('includes/header.php'); ?> Most of it is handling the image. The Post and User objects are instantiated in initializations.php at the top. The image uploads fine, everything works except the post object. The class for that is -> <?php class Post { private $conn; private $user_obj; public function __construct($conn, $user) { $this->conn = $conn; $this->user_obj = new User($conn, $user); } public function addNews($title, $content, $category, $status, $type, $tags, $image) { if(!empty($title) && !empty($content)) { $title = strtoupper($title); $title = mysqli_real_escape_string($this->conn, $title); $content = nl2br($content); $content = mysqli_real_escape_string($this->conn, $content); $added_by = $this->user_obj->getUsername(); $query = mysqli_query($this->conn, "SELECT top_cat_id FROM top_categories WHERE top_cat_title='$category'"); $row = mysqli_fetch_array($query); $cat_id = $row['top_cat_id']; $statement = $this->conn->prepare("INSERT INTO news VALUES ('', '$title', '$content', '$added_by', '$category', '$cat_id', '$image', '$tags', '$status', '$type', '?', '?', '?', '?');"); if($statement) { $statement->execute(); } else { echo "You messed up somewhere"; } } } } ?> I'm not the best or most experienced coder, for sure, but in the few months I've been learning PHP I've written a few DB queries now and this looks right to me. The first attempt didn't have prepared statements but that wasn't getting the data to the DB either. I've checked that the number of fields being sent match the number of fields in the DB, been tinkering with a few small things since yesterday on it, nothing works and as I said, no error or warning is coming back to work from, no message at all to work from. The only thing it triggers is those 2 console messages I mentioned above and the image does get to its new location. It's to the point now I'm just blank-mindedly staring at code. I'm not even getting back the else echo "You messed up somewhere" error from the final if statement, just the javascript alert that it was sent correctly, which it wasn't. I can really use some guidance on this one, thank you