How do I produce a dynamic MySQL pivot table with PHP?

Question

What I have:

I have a table in MySQL named \"updates\" that currently holds the following information:

What I need:

What I need is the

Answer 1

The answer is simple. You can always run every query from your set as a separate query() call. this is universal rule for running multi-query statements.

$mysqli->query('SET @sql = NULL');
$mysqli->query(<<<HERE
SELECT
  GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT
     CONCAT(
       'MAX(IF(Date = ''',
   Date,
   ''', Description, NULL)) AS ',
   CONCAT("'",Date,"'")
 )
   ) INTO @sql
FROM updates;
HERE
);
$mysqli->query("SET @sql = CONCAT('SELECT Action, ', @sql, ' FROM updates GROUP BY Action');");
$mysqli->query("PREPARE stmt FROM @sql");

$res = $mysqli->query("EXECUTE stmt");
var_dump($res->fetch_all(MYSQLI_ASSOC));

but please remember that by this kind of query your are essentially running an SQL injection against your own database. As long as the field type is date it cannot do any harm, but for any text type - watch out!

Answer 2

This a bit of code how to access to a database with MySQLI if this could help you

<?php
$servername = "hostIP";
$username = "lescours_username";
$password = "password of the data base";
$dbname = "lescoursDB";
 //Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
 if ($conn->connect_error) {
    echo "La connexion au serveur a etez interompu, Merci d'essayez plus tard";
}else{
    $sql = 'SELECT nom FROM uiotable where nom= \'' . $nom_ut . '\'';
    //$numRows = $result0->num_rows;
    if (!$conn->query($sql)) {
        echo "Nom d'utilisteur incorrecte ";return;
    }else
        {   $result = $conn->query($sql);

        if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
        // output data of each row
            $row = $result->fetch_assoc();
            echo $row["mo_pas"];
        }       
    }
?>

Answer 3

Assuming you are using mysqli (and not PDO) you can't use a simple query() because you want to execute multiple commands. You will need to use multi_query() in combination with store_result(), more_results() and next_result().

Here is some code I used once:

$db=mysqli_connect($databasehost,$databaseuser,$databasepass,$databasename) or die ("Connection failed!");
$result = $db->multi_query($sql);

if ($err=mysqli_error($db)) { echo $err."<br><hr>"; }

if ($result) {
  do {
  if ($res = $db->store_result()) {
      echo "<table width=100% border=0><tr>";

      // printing table headers
      for($i=0; $i<mysqli_num_fields($res); $i++)
      {
          $field = mysqli_fetch_field($res);
          echo "<td bgcolor=lightgray><b>{$field->name}</b></td>";
      }
      echo "</tr>\n";

      // printing table rows
      while($row = $res->fetch_row())
      {
          echo "<tr>";
          foreach($row as $cell) {
            if ($cell === NULL) { $cell = '(null)'; }
            echo "<td>$cell</td>";
          }
          echo "</tr>\n";
      }
      $res->free();
      echo "</table>";

    }
  } while ($db->more_results() && $db->next_result());
}
$db->close();