Question

I wanted to know if it was possible to write the following expression

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

with a “for loop” instead of a “while loop.” So that the below code would print the same result.

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    echo $row['name'];
}

EDIT: I use PDO I just thought this would be an expression more people have seen. And as far as the answers go, yeah I agree it would be pointless. I’m just having trouble understanding how the internal pointer increments.

Answer 1

It would be really pointless, but you could do:

for(;$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);) {
    echo $row['name'];
}

However, you should seriously consider using PDO.