selecting rows

[amos11]

Hi

 

can i find out if it is possible to retrieve rows from my tables in the database but display them as hyperlinks which can lead to a page (can it be just 1 page that allows values to be inserted into?) that allows charts (using highcharts) or so to be created based on the values passed from the database? Sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm new to this and I'm exploring ways to present my data. Thanks!

[Barand]

Both are certainly possible.

 

How you do it would depend on your data, how you want to link the pages, the charting software you are planning to use.

 

Your question is far to broad at the moment for a more detailed response but so long as you properly normalize the data in your db then you should be OK for most things.

[amos11]

Thanks. I'm trying to research for tutorials and stuff on them but I'm not sure what to really look out for. I would think that my data are normalised. Can i trouble you to enlighten me on search terms that i can use to research on the bit about displaying the retrieved data as hyperlinks that point to a page for data visualisation?

 

 

Thanks!

[amos11]

figured out that i can:

 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

  {

  echo '<tr>';

  echo '<td><a href="sales.php">' . $row['S_Id'] . '</a></td>';

  echo '<td>' . $row['S_Type'] . '</td>';

  echo '<td>' . $row['S_Title'] . '</td>';

  echo '<td>' . $row['S_Date'] . '</td>';

  echo '</tr>';

  }

echo "</table>";

 

But how do i send the data to the php page so that it can use the data and create the charts accordingly? I'm looking at using highcharts. Thanks!