Question

I’m trying to grab multiple rows via these lines from the MySQL database:

$msg_sql = "SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."quotes ORDER BY rand(curdate()) LIMIT 3";
$msg_res = mysqli_fetch_assoc(mysqli_query($link, $msg_sql));
print_r($msg_res);

However, I only get 1 row back. Which is:

Array ( [id] => 1 [message] => test_message [Link] => link here ) 

I wish to get multiple rows (so multiple ID’s)

Please tell me what I’m doing wrong. I’m still new to MySQL.

Answer 1

You must loop once for each row you fetch.

$result = mysqli_query($link, $msg_sql);
while ($item = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    print_r($item);
}