PHP - Filtering by MySQL field value

Question

I\'ve got a table with some rows that contain 3 fields (category, title, image). At first I created a foreach loop that returned some html with the information from each of the

Answer 1

MySql query solution:
Use a Where Statement in your query, and keep your PHP the same.
e.g.

Select * From table Where `category`="Filter Value";

Let me know if that works for you, or if you're constrained to only using PHP to filter the category..

Answer 2

Either use the WHERE clause as asifrc suggested.

Or do something like this

while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    if($row['category'] == 'category1') {
      // do some stuff example
      $html_output .= '<p style="font-weight:bold">Important category: ' . $row['title'] . '</p>';
    } else if($row['category'] == 'category2') {
      // do other stuff
      $html_output .= '<p>Not important category: ' . $row['title'] . '</p>';
    }
}