Looping Through SQL Results in PHP - Not getting Entire Array

Question

I\'m probably missing something easy, but I seem to be blocked here... I have a MySQL database with two tables and each table has several rows. So the goal is to query the

Answer 1

You need to use the following because if you call mysql_fetch_array outside of the loop, you're only returning an array of all the elements in the first row. By setting row to a new row returned by mysql_fetch_array each time the loop goes through, you will iterate through each row instead of whats actually inside the row.

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
   // This will loop through each row, now use your loop here

}

But the good way is to iterate through each row, as you have only three columns

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
   echo $row['name']." ";
   echo $row['email']." ";
}

Answer 2

One common way to loop through results is something like this:

$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    print_r($row);
    // do stuff with $row
}

Check out the examples and comments on PHP.net. You can find everything you need to know there.