Question

I tested looping nested While statements so:

$count1 = 0;

while ($count1 < 3) {
 $count1++;
 $count2 = 0;
 echo "count1: ".$count1."<br />";

    while ($count2 < 3) {
    $count2++;
    echo "count2: ".$count2."<br />";
    }
}

This works perfectly (looping three times each) with results:

count1: 1
 count2: 1
 count2: 2
 count2: 3
count1: 2
 count2: 1
 count2: 2
 count2: 3
count1: 3
 count2: 1
 count2: 2
 count2: 3

Then I tried the same with a loop using mysql_fetch_assoc ($ContactsInterests is a two row associative array, and $LatestNews has 50 rows) i.e.

$CI_count = 0;

while ($CI_Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($ContactsInterests)) { //loop thru interests
$CI_count++;
$LN_count = 0;
echo "CI_count: ".$CI_count."<br />";

while ($LN_Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($LatestNews)) { //loop thru news
    $LN_count++;
    echo "LN_count: ".$LN_count."<br />";

}
}

The results are:

CI_count: 1
 LN_count: 1
 LN_count: 2
 ...
 LN_count: 50
 LN_count: 51
CI_count: 2

But where it the second iteration of LN_count? I don’t understand why the LN_count didn’t increment a second time.

Help appreciated.

Answer 1

mysql_fetch_assoc does iteration for “mysql result” type. Seeks index for each fetch.
you must use mysql_data_seek to go to the first result like;

<?php

    $CI_count = 0;

    while ($CI_Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($ContactsInterests)) { //loop thru interests
        $CI_count++;
        $LN_count = 0;
        echo "CI_count: ".$CI_count."<br />";

        mysql_data_seek($LatestNews,0);
        while ($LN_Row = mysql_fetch_assoc($LatestNews)) { //loop thru news
            $LN_count++;
            echo "LN_count: ".$LN_count."<br />";

        }
    }