Question

I have a table that look like this:

Name | date1   | date2   | date3   | etc..
per1 | status1 |         | status2 | etc
per4 | status2 | status3 |         | etc

The number of the dates columns is not fixed. Their values can either be a status or they can be empty.

I want to access the data of the dates columns for each row separately and process the data.

The output I want to achieve:

Name | field1 | status1  | status2  | etc..
per1 | value  | #ofstat1 | #ofstat2 | etc

So for I got, accessing the table at the beginning of the question:

$confirmed ="Confirmed";
$accepted ="Accepted";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

    $confirmed_cnt =0;
    $accepted_cnt =0;

    foreach ($row as $value) {
        if (strcmp($value, $confirmed)) $confirmed_cnt++;
        else if (strcmp($value, $accepted)) $accepted_cnt++;
    }
print("<tr>");
print("<td>$row["Name"]</td>"); // name   
print("<td>$confirmed</td>"); // confirmed
print("<td>$accepted</td>"); // accepted
print("</tr>");
}

As far as I know this should work, but for some reason it goes trough each column 2 times in a row.

Answer 1

Try mysql_fetch_assoc() or mysql_fetch_row() instead.
mysql_fetch_array() returns every column two times: as [1] and as [‘fieldName’]