I am trying to view all the values of a certain field as long as the username='entered username'
. My problem is that I can only do this in a while loop and print out the result within the while loop, so I can't use the results outside the while loop. Is there any other way to do this? Here is my current code.
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM databse WHERE username='$username'");
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$message= $row['message'];
print_r ($message);
}
mysql_close();
You can do as below :
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM databse WHERE username='$username'");
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
$result = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$result[] = $row;
}
print_r ($result);
mysql_close();
$username
contains a single quote (solution: escape it or use PDO)$username
comes from a user input (solution again: escape it properly or, better, use PDO)You can store your results in an array.
$messages = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$messages[] = $row['message'];
}
print_r($messages);
try this to print all 'message' results
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM databse WHERE username='$username'");
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
$datas = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$message= $row['message'];
$datas[] = $message;
}
print_r ($datas);
mysql_close();