Question

My loop below finds the first instance of “selected” and then no more. The output should say “selected” for FARM and COUNTRY but only farm comes back. Sample output is below. I know it’s just the order I have the WHILE, FOR and IF statements but I can’t figure it out.

Partial sample output:

category NOT selected “SKY”
category selected “FARM”
category NOT selected “CITY”
category NOT selected “TOWN”
category NOT selected “COUNTRY”

The value of $row is 100 and $wordChunks is 2.

$wordChunks = explode(" | ", $categoryquery1['companycategory']);
$sql = "SELECT category_name FROM company_categories " . " ORDER BY category_name";
$rs = mysql_query($sql);for($i = 0; $i < count($wordChunks); $i++)
{

while($row = mysql_data_seek($rs, 0)
{ 

if ($wordChunks[$i] == $row['category_name'])
{
  echo "category selected \"".$row['category_name']."\"<br />"; 
}
else {
    echo "category NOT selected \"".$row['category_name']."\"<br />";
}   
}
}

Answer 1

Check this out,

    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
    {
        if (in_array($row['category_name'], $wordChunks))
        {
            echo "category selected \"" . $row['category_name'] . "\"<br />";
        }
        else
        {
            echo "category NOT selected \"" . $row['category_name'] . "\"<br />";
        }
    }

Please dont use mysql_* extensions, use mysqli_* instead.