Question

I have a MySQL query like this

SELECT id,seq,text FROM table ORDER BY seq ASC;

ID | SEQ | text
________
1  |   1     | one
2  |   4     | four
3  |   6     | six

But i need to accomplish table like this

ID | SEQ | text
________
1  |   1     | one
    |   2     |
    |   3     |
2  |   4     | four
    |   5     |
3  |   6     | six

I could do it with multiple queries, but that would be gross. I think it’s possible with some loop in PHP. The point is that i need to fill the empty rows just with sequence number. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Retrieve max seq no from Db

$query = SELECT max(seq) as max FROM table;
$result = mysql_query();
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$max = $row['max'];

then try a loop

"SELECT id,seq,text FROM table ORDER BY seq ASC";
for( loop for $seq)
{
   for($i=0;$i<$max;$i++)
   {
      if($i == $seq)
      {
         /put your display logic for 1 1 one,2 4 four, 3 6 six
      }
      else
      {
         //blank row
      }
   }
}

Above is the blueprint for your answer. I hope you’ll get the idea.

UPDATE :
Fetch Record from this query

$query2 = "SELECT id,seq,text FROM table ORDER BY seq ASC";
$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2);
for($j=0;$j<mysql_num_rows($row2);$j)

I have explained here what i mean by
for( loop for $seq)