NEWBIE: Can't Get My Loop Going. . .

Jackson Linux <jackson.linux@xxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:57:51 -0500

Hello all,

I am a newbie trying to build a set of links to content in a db. I am 
connecting with the db and seeing the proper number of rows. if I echo 
out the values of $id and $sidebar I see that they take on the id# and 
text of the last entry in the database. I'm trying to make the script 
get each of the rows, until there are no more, and echo out the info I 
need for each row. Please can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

(the variables spelling out the db connection information are in a 
prepend file, and work.)

Thanks in advance,
Jack

<?php

$conn = mysql_connect($dbserver, $dbusername, $dbpassword);
if (!$conn) {
  echo "Unable to connect to DB: " . mysql_error();
  exit;
}

if (!mysql_select_db("$dbname")) {
  echo "Unable to select mydbname: " . mysql_error();
  exit;
}

$sql = "
SELECT *
FROM sidebar
";

$sidebar = array();
$result = mysql_query($sql);

if (!empty($result)) {

     while ($sidebar = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

        $id = $sidebar['sidebar_id'];
        $linktext = $sidebar['headline'];

/* Build sidebar.*/

    $left_sidebar[] = "<li class='menu-item'>- <a class='sidebar-link' 
href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?s={$id}' 
title=\"{$linktext}\">{$linktext}</a></li>";

    }
}
else {}

mysql_free_result($result);

?>

<html><body>

 <ul><?php join("\n\n", $left_sidebar);  ?></ul>

</body></html>

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