Question

I am trying to stop the data in the following table from continuing to repeat itself, as in looping on the same data, crashing the browser:

Here’s the query:

$posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc(mysqli_query($db, "SELECT * from tbl_bugresponse WHERE bugid = $id ORDER BY time")); 

And here’s the table code:

<table width="100%" class="tborder">
    <tr>
        <th class="tcat">Name</th>
        <th class="tcat">Reply</th>
    </tr>
    <?php
        $colour="1";
        while($posts) {
            if($colour == "1"){
                 echo ("<tr class='alt1'>");
                 $f1 = $posts['by'];
                 $f2 = $posts['content'];
                 $colour = "2";
            }
            else {
                 echo "<tr class='alt2'>";
                 $f1 = $posts['by'];
                 $f2 = $posts['content'];
                 $colour = "1";
            }
            ?>
            <td><?php echo $f1; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $f2; ?></td>
        </tr>
        <?}?>
</table>

Note that I am using mysqli not mysql.

Answer 1

You aren’t progressing through the result set. mysqli_query gets your resultset, and mysqli_fetch_assoc progresses through it. You need something like this:

$results = mysqli_query($db, "SELECT * from tbl_bugresponse WHERE bugid = $id ORDER BY time");
while ($posts = mysqli_fetch_assoc($results)) {
    // table construction code goes here
}