[SOLVED] Cant display mysql data

bass_avb · October 16, 2009

Hey all,

I am learning php and my first goal is to create a simple CMS. At the moment I am stuck on not being able to pull page names and their id`s from my DB and combine them into a list of links (like so/manage_pages.php?page_id=1) so I could grab id`s later for update and delete pages. Problem is when I load the page none of the links are displayed. My php5 is set up so that I could see all of the errors but there are none displayed nor is there anything in the log.

Here are the function I am using:

<?php
function confirm_query($result_set) {
	if (!$result_set) {
		die("Database query failed: " . mysql_error());
	}
}

function get_all_pages() {
	global $connection;
                mysql_select_db("content_MS", $connection);
	$query = "SELECT *
                          FROM pages
	          ORDER BY id ASC";
	$result_set = mysql_query($query, $connection);
	confirm_query($result_set);
	return $result_set;

}

function list_pages(){

global $connection;
$result = get_all_pages();
$output = "<div>";
$output .= "<p>Select the page you would like to edit:</p>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  $output .="<ul>";
  $output .= "<li>";
  $output .= "<a href=\"manage_pages.php?page=" . urlencode($row["id"]) ."\">{$row["page_name"]}</a></li>";
  $output .="</ul>";
  }
  $output .="</div>";
  return $output;
}
?>

Then I simply echo list_pages function on a page:

<?php include ("includes/header.php"); ?>
	<div id="content">
		<div class="in">
			<h2>This is the main content</h2>

                                <?php list_pages();?>
		</div>
	</div>
<?php include ("includes/footer.php"); ?>

And below is the html code I see when I load the page:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Content Manager - Manage Pages</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/back_css.css" media="screen" />
</head>
    <body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
	<div class="in">
		<h1>Welcome To Your Content Manager!</h1>
	</div>
</div>

<div id="content-wrapper">		<div id="content">
		<div class="in">
			<h2>This is the main content</h2>

                                			</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id="left"><div class="in">
        <h2>Menu</h2>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="manage_pages.php?name=Manage Pages"> Manage Pages </a></li>
            <li><a href="manage_menu.php?name=Manage Menu"> Manage Menu </a></li>
            <li><a href="manage_albums.php?name=Manage Albums"> Manage Albums </a></li>
            <li><a href="manage_videos.php?name=Manage Videos"> Manage Videos</a></li>
            <li><a href="manage_gigs.php?name=Manage Gigs"> Manage Gigs </a></li>
            <li><a href="manage_news.php?name=Manage News"> Manage News</a></li>
        </ul>
</div></div>
<div id="footer"><span>by AB</span></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance !

--best

A

DavidAM · October 16, 2009

Your list_pages function returns the text to be output. You need to echo it to the page:

 <?php echo list_pages();?>

bass_avb · October 16, 2009

Hi,

I did. This is the code for manage_pages.php

<?php include ("includes/header.php"); ?>
	<div id="content">
		[b]<div class="in">
			<h2>This is the main content</h2>

                                <?php list_pages();?>
		</div>[/b]
	</div>
<?php include ("includes/footer.php"); ?>

BTW...

I also tried to combine everything into one function but same result:

<?php
function list_pages(){

    $DB_SERVER = "****";
    $DB_USERNAME = "*****";
    $DB_PASS = "****";
    $connection = mysql_connect($DB_SERVER, $DB_USERNAME, $DB_PASS);
        if (!$connection)
        die ('Could not connect:' . mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db("content_MS",$connection);
    $query = "SELECT *
              FROM pages
              ORDER BY id ASC";
    $result = mysql_query($query,$connection);
    $output = "<div>";
    $output .= "<p>Select the page you would like to edit:</p>";
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
         {
    $output ="<ul>";
    $output .= "<li>";
    $output .= "<a href=\"manage_pages.php?page=" . urlencode($row["id"]) ."\">{$row["page_name"]}</a></li>";
    $output .="</ul>";
          }
    $output .="</div>";
    return $output;
}
?>

Coreye · October 16, 2009

You have

<?php list_pages();?>

Like David says, that needs to be

<?php echo list_pages();?>

bass_avb · October 16, 2009

HAHAHA OMG...

I have been staring at the page for like two hours and didnt catch that one.

It works now but there is one problem though. I have 2 records in the table but only one of them is showing (record 2) and the following is not getting outputted

$output = "<div>";
$output .= "<p>Select the page you would like to edit:</p>";

This is what page source looks like :

<div id="content-wrapper">		
           <div id="content">
		<div class="in">
			<h2>This is the main content</h2>

                                <ul><li><a href="manage_pages.php?page=2">Bio</a></li></ul></div>			
           </div>
	       </div>
[\code]

So <div> and "Select the page you would like to edit:" is not showing.

bass_avb · October 16, 2009

Never mind just fixed it !!!

Thanks!

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