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Asked: 2026-06-01T23:12:53+00:00

I am making an ajax comment system for my website and I am querying

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I am making an ajax comment system for my website and I am querying my database for any comments with a certain field. I then look and see if the number of returned results is larger than 3, or less than/equal to 3(I have a specific reason for 3). If it is larger than 3, I set a variable = 3 but if it is less than/equal to 3, I set the variable equal to the number of returned rows(mysql_num_rows()). I then echo some text before the loop, then I echo the stuff in the loop and then after the loop I echo more stuff. For some reason my for loop is running more than the given times. What is very strange is that it is echoing the same comment 3 times before moving onto the next comment and echoing that 3 times. After the for loop, I have 9 comments in total. This dosn’t work with my design as I can only fit 3 comments where I am placing them. My for loop is nested in a few whiles because I need to query multiple times to get to the information I need based on the info I send to the php(specific reason for this also). Another thing, the PHP only echoes the comments 9 times only if the number of returned results is greater than 3 works fine if it is less than 3. I have been over this code 50 times but I can’t find anything. Maybe you guys can. Heres the code I am using:

                $comments = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comments WHERE profid = '".$row['id']."'");
                $numComments = mysql_num_rows($comments);
                $totalCommComments = 0;
                if ($numComments > 0) {
                    if (mysql_num_rows($comments) > 3) {
                        $totalCommComments = 3;
                        echo '
        <div class="comments">
            <div class="commContainer">
                <ul class="'.$totalCommComments.'Comm">';
                        while ($get1 = mysql_fetch_array($comments)) {
                        for ($l = 1;$l<$totalCommComments;$l++) {
                            echo 'STUFF IS ECHOED HERE';
                        }
                        }  
                        echo '
                 </ul>
            </div>
       </div>';

I know the variable $totalCommComments is set to 3 because I can see the class in the <ul>.

PS. This isn’t the full code, only the relevant code. Everything else is querying different database for other information needed to make this query.

Thank you so much

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  1. Editorial Team
    $comments = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comments WHERE profid = {$row['id']}");
$numComments = mysql_num_rows($comments);
if ($numComments > 0) { ?>
   <div class="comments">
       <div class="commContainer">
           <ul class="shortComments">
               <?php $i = 0;
               while ($i++ < 3 && $get1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($comments)) { ?>
                   <li class='comment'><?=$get1['comment']?></li>
               <?php } ?>
           </ul>
       </div>
   </div>
<?php } ?>

    try that. You have a lot of redundant code in there

    there are a lot of different ways i could continue to edit this, if you let us know what you are trying to do, i can update this code

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