Question

For some reason I’m having a problem retrieving data from my database. It leaves off the first item being listed.

$sql=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM students WHERE (year = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['year']) . "') and ( branch= '" . mysql_real_escape_string(($_SESSION['branch'])). "') ");


$data=mysql_fetch_array( $sql );

print "<table>"
while($data = mysql_fetch_array( $sql )) 
 { 

 Print "<tr><td>".$data['idno']." </td><td>".$data['name'] . " </td></tr>";
 } 
print "</table>"

Please help me with this. Thank you.

Answer 1

Remove the following line:

$data=mysql_fetch_array( $sql ); 

The call to mysql_fetch_array moves the internal pointer to the next row, thus you are getting all rows except the first in your while loop.

You could also reset the internal pointer with mysql_data_seek.

mysql_data_seek ($sql, 0); // 0 for first row