Question

i have this part of a code and i cant understund why the second loop inside the first does not work. I query two tables and i placed an echo inside the second table to see if it echo’s but it does not either . thanx in advance

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
 echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a class=\"s03\" href=" . $row['link'] . "><span>". $row['onomaselidas'] ."</span></a>\n";
 echo "<ul class=\"pn2\">\n";
 $idd[]=$row['idwebsiteprimary'];
   while($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2))
   {
    echo "test";
   if($idd[$url]==$row2['idwebsite'])
    {
    echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a href=\"a\"><span>". $row2['name'] ."</span></a></li>\n";
    }
   }
 echo "</ul>\n";
}

Answer 1

After the first iteration of the first loop, the internal pointer of the second result set is at the end, so the second loop will not execute, because mysql_fetch_array() will return false immediately. If you want to it exactly as above – the second result set is not dependant on the first – you will need to do this:

// First, get the results of set 2 into an array
$resultset2 = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2)) $resultset2[] = $row;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { // Do your thang
  echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a class=\"s03\" href=" . $row['link'] . "><span>".$row['onomaselidas'] ."</span></a>\n";
  echo "<ul class=\"pn2\">\n";
  $idd[] = $row['idwebsiteprimary'];
  foreach ($resultset2 as $row2) { // Foreach sets it's pointer to the beginning every time, so this should work
    echo "test";
    if ($idd[$url]==$row2['idwebsite']) {
      echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a href=\"a\"><span>". $row2['name'] ."</span></a></li>\n";
    }
  }
  echo "</ul>\n";
}

Alternatively, you can reset the internal pointer of $result2 on each iteration of the first loop by calling mysql_data_seek($result2, 0); like this:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
  echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a class=\"s03\" href=" . $row['link'] . "><span>". $row['onomaselidas'] ."</span></a>\n";
  echo "<ul class=\"pn2\">\n";
  $idd[] = $row['idwebsiteprimary'];
  mysql_data_seek($result2, 0);
  while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2)) {
    echo "test";
    if($idd[$url]==$row2['idwebsite']) {
      echo "<li class=\"s01\"><a href=\"a\"><span>". $row2['name'] ."</span></a></li>\n";
    }
  }
  echo "</ul>\n";
}