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convert a code block mysql to mysqli

Thread began 3/06/2016 11:12 am by Christopher West | Last modified 3/08/2016 10:02 am by Ray Borduin | 1305 views | 3 replies |

Christopher WestCommunity Expert

convert a code block mysql to mysqli

Hi, this code was original coded for mysql and I was wondering how easy would it be to convert to mysqli

php:
<?php

mysql_select_db
($database_dinkydb$dinkydb);
$query_CatgFinger "SELECT * FROM productcategories";
$CatgFinger mysql_query($query_CatgFinger$dinkydb) or die(mysql_error());

$menuList = array();
while (
$row =  mysql_fetch_assoc($CatgFinger)) {
    
array_push($menuList,array('CategoryLocation' => $row['CategoryLocation'],'CategoryLink' => $row['CategoryLink'], 'CategoryName' => $row['CategoryName']));
}
?>
<?php
function get_menu_items($menuList = array(), $categroyLocation '') {
    
$obj NULL;
    foreach(
$menuList as $key => $val){
        if(
$val['CategoryLocation'] == $categroyLocation) {
            
$obj .= '<li class="left"><a href="../Category/' $val['CategoryLink'] . '" >' .  $val['CategoryName'] . '</a></li>';    
        }
    }
    
    return 
$obj;
}
?>




html:
<li class="left"><a href="#">Fingerprint Jewellery</a>
<ul class="dropdown">
<?php echo get_menu_items($menuList,'Fingerprint-Jewellery'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php echo get_menu_items($menuList,'Paw-Prints'); ?>
<li class="left"><a href="#">Hands &amp; Feet</a>
<ul class="dropdown">
<?php echo get_menu_items($menuList,'Hands-Feet'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php echo get_menu_items($menuList,'Word-Art'); ?>
<?php echo get_menu_items($menuList,'In-Remembrance'); ?>
<li class="right"><a href="../contact.php">Contact</a></li>
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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It shouldn't be too difficult. Just add a MySQLi recordset with the same query. Then loop on the result to create the array structure that your code uses. Really it would just be a matter of rewriting those couple of lines of code in your while loop.

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

Thanks I will try that. I took this code from old of my older websites and thinking of using it in my current project as finding some issues with how the navigation is used, its more of a logical issue, so hoping this approach will work.

By the way this block of code uses 1 single database table for categories which includes both parent and child menu items. Even though it works. Would you feel that's a bad approach, Could it cause potential issues further up the line?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I don't think it is a bad approach, but you may be able to make the code easier to read by breaking it up... but honestly if it isn't broke don't fix it. I feel like it would be easier to translate the code to mysqli if you weren't also trying to change the structure at the same time.

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