Hyperlink in MySql Database - mysql

Question

I have a MySql database online for transcriptions of document images. Those images are located on another website. I want to include the link to the actual image in the database so that the person researching can click the link and go directly to the image.
I have done the following:
Created a column named IMAGE
In my excel spreadsheet that will be uploaded via ODBC to PhpMyAdmin for my datbase, i have included the IMAGE
When the file is uploaded via ODBC, I can see the link in the Table on PhpMyAdmin for my database.
I have also included the IMAGE column to be shown on my results page and the column does appear.
But the hyperlink does NOT appear at all on the results page for any entry that has a link in the Image column so there is nothing to click on to go directly to the image
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I wrote this up quickly to try and help you out. You will need to change DBHOST, DBUSERNAME, yourtablename etc to your databases information.
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("DBHOST","DBUSERNAME","DBPASSWORD","DBNAME");
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM 'yourtablename'");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Notes</th>
<th>Image</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['NOTES'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['IMAGE'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
Edit: Here is an alternate solution that will put the link formatting in for you.
I wrote this up quickly to try and help you out. You will need to change DBHOST, DBUSERNAME, yourtablename etc to your databases information.
<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("DBHOST","DBUSERNAME","DBPASSWORD","DBNAME");
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM 'yourtablename'");
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Notes</th>
<th>Image</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['NOTES'] . "</td>";
echo "<td><a href='" . $row['IMAGE'] . "'>Link</a></td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>