How to use the same div to display different data from database

[chauhanRohit]

Hi guys,

 can i use a single div to display different data from the database and how to display the  output from a php into the html page,

 

 THis is the php file how do i output the results back to index.php

<?php
include 'php_includes/connection.php';
$C_output = '';

//collect
//query	
	$query = mysql_query("SELECT  * FROM authors WHERE fname LIKE 'Aardema'  ") or die("could not search");
	$count = mysql_num_rows($query);
	if($count == 0){
         $C_output = '<div>"there was no search result!"</div>';
        }else{
        $C_output = '<div>';
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)){
                     
					 $C_output .= '<div class="content">
				            '.$row['fname'].' 
							'.$row['lname'].'<br />
							'.$row['content'].'
						    <br /><br /></div>';
							
           }
        $C_output .= '</div>';
       }
    
echo($C_output); 
mysql_close();
?>

Thanks

[Ch0cu3r]

 

 

 THis is the php file how do i output the results back to index.php

Can you explain further what you mean by this? Is this code not in index.php?

[ginerjm]

What you want to do is certainly a common enough thing.  Simply create your html wrapper with the div and css stylings and then place your php var in the html.  Then let the html be output along with that var and you'll have what you want. 

 

I usually do this kind of thing by having  all of my html in one function (DisplayPage) and then let all my php code happen before calling that function to send all my output - html and php vars that I have created.  You can pass the vars into the function with args i.e.: DisplayPage($var1,$var2,$var3), or use global vars (which many are totally against, but they work just fine for me).