MYSQL - Select specific value from a fetched array

Question

I have a small problem and since I am very new to all this stuff, I was not successful on googling it, because I dont know the exact definitions for what I am looking for.

Answer 1

If you want to be able to use 2 consecutive results in one loop, you can store the results of the first loop, and then loop through.

$initial = true;
$storedId = '';

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

  $storedId = $row['id'];

  if($initial) {

    $initial = false;
    continue;
  }

  echo $storedId . $row['name'];
}

This only works for consecutive things though.Please excuse the syntax errors, i haven't programmed in PHP for a very long time...