Question

How can I make those dates line up with start date and end date or selectively echo the dates rather than have the while loop echo them?

For example if I can echo “Start Date” then the actual date then the “end date” and then the date.

Basically how may I echo the dates from mySQL selectively rather than using the loop to echo them?

for example if I want to echo row 2 can I do echo $row‘date’ (to echo the 2nd row)

On HTML Page PHP CODE:

Start Date:

End Date:

<?php


mysql_connect("host","username","password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("UserLogins") or die(mysql_error());

$query = "SELECT * FROM Date1"; 

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());


while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    echo "<li>".$row['date']."</li>";
    echo "<br />";
}

?>

Answer 1

first solution

$arr = Array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $arr[] = $row;
}

echo $arr[0]['date']; // first
echo $arr[3]['date'];
echo $arr[7]['date'];
echo $arr[count($arr)-1]['date']; // last

second solution

$first = @mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Date1 ORDER BY date ASC LIMIT1")); 
$last = @mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Date1 ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT1")); 
echo $first['date'].'<br>';
echo $last['date'];

if you want to use second solution remember to put index on date column