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...

Answer 2

I used the code from the answer and slightly modified it. Thought I would share.

$result = mysql_query( "SELECT name FROM category;", db_connect() );
$myrow = array();
while ($myrow[]  = mysql_fetch_array( $result, MYSQLI_ASSOC )) {}
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);

Example usage

echo "You're viewing " . $myrow[$view_cat]['name'] . "from a total of " . $num;

Answer 3

$counter = 0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $counter++;

    if($counter == 2){
        echo $row['id']. " - ". $row['name'];
        echo "<br />";
    }
}