Question

i’ve just changed from ASP to php and i’m a bit confused about the way php is handling recordsets.
i’d like to know if there’s an easier way to iterate a recordset by creating a php class.
here’s the ASP syntax to show what i mean:

sq = "select * from myData"
set rs = db.execute(sq)
do while not rs.eof
    response.write rs("name")  // output data (response.write = echo)
    rs.movenext
loop

any ideas?
thanks

Answer 1

You’d pretty much do the same thing…

$sql = "select * from myData";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); //executes query
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ //will automatically return false when out of records
    echo $row['name'];
}