Apologies for the perhaps poor title - It is best to display my goal visually:
I want something like this to show on the page when user goes to SomeURL.com/test.php?id=101
| Questions | Answers |
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| 1(a) First Name| Pedro |
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| 1(b) Surname | Millers |
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| 2(a) Weight | 150lbs |
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This will be acheived by queries to a mysql database. Firstly:
SELECT * FROM Questionnaire WHERE idQuestionnaire=101;
Which returns:
| idQuestionnaire | FirstName | Surname | Weight |
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| 101 | Pedro | Millers | 150lbs |
In my table settings I have Column comments set. i.e. For the Column "FirstName" the comments read "1(a) First Name". To retreive all of these comments I can do another query:
SELECT COLUMN_NAMES FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='Questionnaire';
Which returns:
| COLUMN_COMMENTS |
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| 1(a) First Name |
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| 1(b) Surname |
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| 2(a) Weight |
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The reason I want to automate the code with arrays/loops rather than hard code is because the actual table I am using has over 400 fields, and fields may be modified or added so I would like not to have to keep changing the php code as well when this happens. It seems like a pretty simple task but can't for the life of me find relevant documented solutions.