Creating a table with mysql, php and ajax (with jquery)

Question

For my new project i want the so modern approach of not needing to reload a page on every database request. :) I want the script to query the database and create a table wit

Answer 1

You may invert the logic, and do it on client side, using a library that does that automatically, like http://phery-php-ajax.net Instead of creating the table on the server side, send it as JSON to the browser, which is faster, and build your table:

Phery::instance()->set(array(
'load' => function(){
  /* rest of mysql code */
  $rows = array();
  while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($facebook)) { $rows[] = $row; }
  return PheryResponse::factory()->json($rows);
})->process();

then in the client side inside $(function(){});

$(function(){
  var $result_table = $('#result_table'); 
  $result_table.phery('make', 'load');
  $result_table.bind('phery:json', function(e, data){
    var $this = $(this);
    for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
      $this.append($('<tr/>', {
        'html': '<td>' + data[i].row_name + '</td>'
      }));
    }
  });
  $result_table.phery('remote');
});

Answer 2

Instead of

$output_string .= '<td>{$value}</td>';

try

$output_string .= "<td>{$value}</td>";

i.e. replace the single quotes with double quotes.

See the doc here, which says:

When a string is specified in double quotes ... variables are parsed within it.

and

variables ... will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings.

Answer 3

You should just use $value instead of {$value}. You don't need another foreach loop inside the while loop.

$output_string = '';
$output_string .=  '<table border="1">';
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($facebook))
{
    $output_string .= '<tr>';
    $output_string .= '<td>'.$row['Your table column name here'].'</td>';
    $output_string .= '</tr>';
}
$output_string .= '</table>';