Doesn't Pull Data From Database For Some Reason

[Kwright02]

The following code below is used to pull text from a database to fill in a paragraph spot but doesn't do that for some reason. Can you please explain to me why? I'm fairly new to php coding and So I'm not quite sure what i've done wrong.

 

 

$host = "localhost";

$dbname = "xxx";

$username = "xxx";

$password = "xxx";

 

$conn = new mysqli($host, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection

if ($conn->connect_error) {

    echo $conn->connect_error;

} 

 

$sql = "SELECT paragraphtext FROM mainpage WHERE paragraphnum='1'";

$result = $conn->query($sql);

if($result == null){

echo 'Error retreving paragraph text';

}

 

   echo '<p>' . $conn->query($sql) . '</p>';

[dkub]

mysqli::query returns a mysqi_result object. You need to fetch results before you can output them.

[Kwright02]

i've looked throuhg some documentations and this is the new code, but it still doesn't work:

 

$sql = "SELECT paragraphtext FROM mainpage WHERE paragraphnum='1'";

if ($result = $conn->query($query)) {

    $text = mysql_fetch($result);

    echo $text;

 

    }

[benanamen]

Did the documentation tell you there is something called mysql_fetch?

[Kwright02]

I miss typed it that time. i'm actuall doing:

 

$sql = "SELECT paragraphtext FROM mainpage WHERE paragraphnum='1'";

if ($result = $conn->query($query)) {

    $text = mysql_fetch_row($result);

    echo $text[0];

 

    }

[dkub]

The mysql extension has been deprecated since approximately forever and was removed in PHP 7. Perhaps even more importantly is that mysqli is a separate extension. You can't mix and match functions. Read the links I provided earlier (well, read the ones I've provided here also) and you pretty much have a step by step guide to get your code working.

[ginerjm]

You mis-typed it. Why don't you cut and paste your actual code so that can't happen. Besides you corrected the wrong line, typing it incorrectly as well.

 

Also - if you read the manual page on this function you would learn what the result looks like and handle it with proper code. An array can't just be echo-ed out.

[mlukac89]

@Kwright02 try this if works, http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-array.php

<?php

$host = "localhost";
$username = "xxx";
$password = "xxx";
$dbname = "xxx";

$mysqli = new mysqli($host, $username, $password, $dbname);

// check connection
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
    echo "Connect failed: ", $mysqli->connect_error);
    exit();
}

$query = "SELECT paragraphtext FROM mainpage WHERE paragraphnum='1'";
$result = $mysqli->query($query);

// if query runs
if ($result) {
	// loop through results and echo them in paragraph
	while ($row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)) {
		echo '<p>'.$row["paragraphtext"] .'</p>';
	}
} else {
	echo 'There was a problem with query.';
}

// close connection
$mysqli->close();

?>

[benanamen]

Outputting internal errors is always a bad idea. The info is only good to a hacker and of no use to the user. There is no need to manually close the connection. Php will do it automatically when the script finishes running.