Question

I have a database named teste with a table called exemplo with 2 columns (id, nome):
Want a php script to select all the information in the nome column, and echo that information and place them in a txt file. What’s wrong in the code?
I can only see the first value and not the second.. And with an infinite loop!

$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '123');
if (!$link) {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_select_db('teste', $link);

/* Desired */
$file = fopen("myfile.txt","w");

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM exemplo");
$array = mysql_fetch_array($result);
while ($array) {
  echo $array['nome'];

  fputs($file ,$array['nome']); 
}

mysql_close($link);

Answer 1

That’s because mysql_fetch_array only returns one result at a time, so $array is always true. You want this:

while ($array = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  echo $array['nome'];
  fputs($file ,$array['nome']); 
}