Question

I am attempting to loop through rows in MySQL with the following code. Unfortunately, the mysql_fetch_row function is only returning the first row of my query (I confirmed this with print_r). When I use mysql_num_rowsit returns the correct number of rows for that query(2). Any idea why mysql_fetch_row is returning only the first row?

$query = 'SELECT firstName FROM profiles WHERE city="Phoenix" and lastName ="Smith"';
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
print_r($row); //This returns only 1 array item: Array ( [0] => John)

$a=mysql_num_rows($result);
print_r($a); //This returns 2

I have also run the same query in MySQL and it returns both rows (“John” and “Jim”).

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Just perform mysql_fetch_row twice (or in a loop). By definition (if you read the documentation) it returns only one row at once. So:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    var_dump($row);
}