Question

I have a mysql table called category Inside this table lets say i have several rows 0 to 7 and inside the table i have cat_id and cat_name. How would i be able to print out cat_name based on whichever row i want. For example i want to print row 6 or 4 would i put it like $row[6] or $row[4]

Basically i want to use . $_GET['rownumber'] to get the row number and then use it to print out the row. So would it work something like $row[$_GET['rownumber']] ? Im kind of confused just trying to learn mysql here.

I basically want to print the cat_name within that row that i choose in php

Answer 1

This is how to get the rows based on the row number:

SET @rownum = 0; 
Select sub.*, sub.rank as Rank
FROM
(
   Select *,  (@rownum:=@rownum+1) as rowNum
   FROM   Categories
) sub
WHERE rowNum IN (4, 6) 

However, Mysql has a built in function ORDER BY LIMIT to do this.