Can php query the results from a previous query?

Question

In some languages (ColdFusion comes to mind), you can run a query on the result set from a previous query. Is it possible to do something like that in php (with MySQL as the dat

Answer 1

In PHP, it would be terribly inefficient. You would have to loop through each row and check that its name was trout. However, is there any reason you can't do

SELECT * FROM `animals` WHERE `type` = 'fish' AND `name` = 'trout'

in SQL? It would be much, much faster.