Question

Basically I have articles in my database and I want to alter the way the first record displays. I want the lastest (Posted) article to be the focus and the older article just to list, (see F1.com). I need to know how to get the first of my values in the array and get it to display differently but I am not sure how to do this, I can do it so all rows display the same just not how to alter the first row. I also need to know how to tell the rest of the rows to display the same afterwards im guessing you use an if statement there and before that some kind of count for the rows.

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Current code:

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM dbArticle WHERE userID='".$_SESSION["**"]."' ORDER BY timestamp DESC");  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))   {   echo "<h2 class=\"heading1\">". $row['title'] ."</h2>";   echo "By:  ".$row['username']."  Type: ".$row['type']."  Posted: ".$row['timestamp']."    $body = $row['body'];   echo "<br/><p>";   echo substr("$body",0,260);   echo "...<span class=\"tool\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"index.php?pageContent=readArticle&id=".$row['id']."\">Read More</a></span></p><hr/>";   } mysql_close($con); 

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Ok I have taken Luke Dennis’s code and tried to test it, but I am getting this error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() this is the line of the foreach statment. Something that has just come to mind is that I will only want 5 or so of the older articles to display. This is what I have thats creating the error:

<? $con = mysql_connect("localhost","****","***"); if (!$con)   {   die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());   }  mysql_select_db("******", $con);  $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM dbArticle ORDER BY timestamp DESC"); $first = true;     foreach($result as $row){     if($first)     {         echo"".$row['title']."";         echo"this is the headline";          $first = false;     }     else     {         echo"".$row['title']."";              } }  ?> 

Do I need to add mysql_fetch_array somewhere to set the array up?

Answer 1

I would just iterate through the results and apply a css class to the first entry:

$first = true;     while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {   $cssClass = '';   if ($first) {     $cssClass = 'highlight';   }   echo '<p class='' . $cssClass . ''>' . $row['text'] . '</p>';   $first = false; }