Question

In php working with mysql, how can I output two columns values only once, and then loop thru the others.

Here:

$exe_fetch_data = mysql_query("select category, subcategory, title, body, views from table");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($exe_fetch_data))
echo $row['category'];    //Only once
echo $row['subcategory']; //Only once

{
echo $row['title'];
echo $row['body'];
echo $row['views'];
}

Desired output:

Category->SubCategory //Outputted only once

Title,  //Title Body and Views depend on whatever's there in the db. Could be 10 or more
Body,
Views

Title,
Body,
Views

Title,
Body,
Views

Answer 1

This code shoud do the trick

    $exe_fetch_data = mysql_query("select category, subcategory, title, body, views from table");
    $row_once = mysql_fetch_array($exe_fetch_data)
    echo $row_once['category'];    //Only once
    echo $row_once['subcategory']; //Only once

   while($row = mysql_fetch_array($exe_fetch_data)) {
    echo $row['title'];
    echo $row['body'];
    echo $row['views'];
    }

You could also try using a flag whose value is initially true and will turn false after first iteration.
But I think above code will be faster than using a flag as it wont compare/check flag value after each iteration and with a huge database it will save execution time.