Question

I’ve got a database table with at least three rows in it. From php, I have successfully connected to my db and extracted all table information with ‘SELECT * from mytable’ .

Now I want to loop through first each row, and then each cell, printing out the contents of each cell.

I know this might be a simple task for a more experienced programmer, but I can’t figure it out, and I can’t find any examples online and it’s driving me stark raving bonkers.

How can I do this ?

Answer 1

You could use a for each loop…

//Do the query
$query = "SELECT * FROM table";
$result = mysql_query($query);
//iterate over all the rows
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    //iterate over all the fields
    foreach($row as $key => $val){
        //generate output
        echo $key . ": " . $val . "<BR />";
    }
}

Haven’t tested it, so there may be a syntax error in it, but this is the main idea