How to insert array into database

Hey guys!

I am trying to follow this tutorial, which is based on php oop but I am doing php procedure but I can only insert the first option of my array into my database:

<?php

include_once 'includes/dbh.php';
include_once 'header.php';

  $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_uid = ?;";

  $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($conn);
   if (!mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $sql)) {
        echo 'SQL statement failed';
    } else {
         //Bind parameters to the placeholder
         mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $_SESSION['u_uid']);
         //Run parameters inside database
         mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
         $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
         $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);


         if ($row['admin'] == 0) {
             header("Location: header.php?add=notadmin");
             exit;
       } else {

   if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

   
   include_once 'includes/dbh.php';
   $question_number = $_POST['question_number'];
   $question_text = $_POST['question_text'];
   $correct_choice = $_POST['correct_choice'];
   //Choices array
   $choices = array();
   $choices[1] = $_POST['choice1'];
   $choices[2] = $_POST['choice2'];
   $choices[3] = $_POST['choice3'];
   $choices[4] = $_POST['choice4'];
   

   $correct_choice = $_POST['correct_choice'];

   $sql2 = "INSERT INTO questions (question_number, text) VALUES (?,?);";

    $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($conn);
   if (!mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $sql2)) {
        echo 'SQL statement failed';
    } else {
         //Bind parameters to the placeholder
         mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "is", $question_number, $question_text);
         //Run parameters inside database
         $result = mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
         

          if ($result) {
            foreach($choices as $choice => $value) {
               if ($value != '') {
                  if ($correct_choice == $choice) {
                     $is_correct = 1;
               } else {
                    $is_correct = 0;
              }

              echo $value;
              echo $choices[1];
              echo $choices[2];
              echo $choices[3];
              echo $choices[4];

             // Choice query

             $sql3 = "INSERT INTO choices (question_number, is_correct, text) VALUES (?,?,?);";



             $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($conn);
            if (!mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $sql3)) {
                 echo 'SQL statement failed';
             } else {
                  //Bind parameters to the placeholder
                  mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "iis", $question_number, $is_correct, $value);
                  mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
                     }

                     header("Location: quiz.php?add=success");
                     exit();
                  }
               }

       }  
}



$sql = "SELECT * FROM questions;";

    $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($conn);
    //Prepare the prepared statement
    if (!mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $sql)) {
        echo 'SQL statement failed';
    } else {
         mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
         $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
         $resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result); // total questions
         $next = $resultCheck+1;

}


}
}
}
?>







<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>PHP QUIZZER</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
   <header>
      <div class="quiz_container">
        <h2>For Administrator uses only! Add a Question</h2>
        <form action="" method="POST" class="signup-form">
            <p>
               <label id="question_number">Question Number: </label>
               <input type="number" value="<?php echo $next; ?>" name="question_number" />
            </p>
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Question Text: </label>
               <input type="text" name="question_text" />
            </p>
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Choice #1: </label>
               <input type="text" name="choice1" />
            </p>
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Choice #2: </label>
               <input type="text" name="choice2" />
            </p>
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Choice #3: </label>
               <input type="text" name="choice3">
            </p>
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Choice #4: </label>
               <input type="text" name="choice4">
            </p>
            <br />
            
            <br />
            <p>
               <label>Correct Choice Number: </label>
               <input type="number" name="correct_choice">
            </p>
            <p>
              
               <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
            </p>
         </form>
      </div>
   </main>

   
</body>
</html>

This is the video that I am following:

Hi, there are a number of potential reasons why your code is not working, not the least of which being the PHP version you’re running. Try changing the PHP version to different versions (in your website control panel under Settings > General > PHP version) and seeing if one of them helps with the code. If not, @ckhawand, @Supun, or @teodor may be able to help.

I remembered I did that before by echoing out a command and I have the latest version of php… I am just afraid that my prepare statement is wrong for the foreach loop here because in the video, he was using php oop but if I do a print_r($choices), then it will print out the array? but how would I insert this into separate rows?

I have got it working… I think I must have put my insert statement in the wrong part of the {} but for some reason, whenever I do mysqli_num_rows($stmt)… it always say something about Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in C:\xampp\htdocs\loginsystem\add.php on line 67
There are no results

So issue fixed? :slight_smile: