Question

When I do this query directly from PHP my admin I got 5 results.

SELECT img FROM `table`.`goog` WHERE `url` LIKE '%google.com%' and `pictureID` != 'picture_50d22657a423b6.62354164'; 

however, when my code

$sql2 = "SELECT img FROM `table`.`goog` WHERE `url` LIKE '%$url%' and `pictureID` != '$pictureID';";
    // echo $sql2;
$result2=mysql_query($sql2);
$rows2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2);

mysql_close($con);

print_r(count($rows2));

echo "<br/>";

echo $sql2;

it prints out

2 
SELECT img FROM `ashkan`.`goog` WHERE `url` LIKE '%66.228.42.45%' and `pictureID` != 'picture_50d22657a423b6.62354164';

I would also like to note that the query I run inside of php my admin is copied from what my code returns..

So, why does one returns only 2 items, and the other returns 5?

EDIT

I added the following to the bottom

var_dump($rows2);
echo "<br/>";
echo mysql_num_rows($result2);

and got this

array(2) { [0]=> string(1) "b" ["img"]=> string(1) "b" } 
5 

I have something that manually selects a row

Essentially I want to be able to do

echo $rows2[somenum]; //that some number is at random and only one at a time

however, as is, I can only access item 0 and not all five.

Answer 1

UPDATED CODE

Here’s your updated code:

$mysqlQuery=mysql_query("SELECT img FROM `table`.`goog` WHERE `url` LIKE '%$url%' and `pictureID` != '$pictureID");
$databaseArray=array();

while($arrayQuery=mysql_fetch_array($mysqlQuery))
{
    $imageName=$arrayQuery['img'];
    
    $databaseArray[]=$imageName;
}

echo "Database returned ".count($databaseArray)." rows.";

print_r($databaseArray);

echo $databaseArray[0]; // prints image name row 1
echo $databaseArray[1]; // prints image name row 2
echo $databaseArray[2]; // prints image name row 3
// etc etc etc

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Old code

Do this:

$sql2 = "SELECT img FROM `table`.`goog` WHERE `url` LIKE '%$url%' and `pictureID` != '$pictureID';";
    // echo $sql2;
$result2=mysql_query($sql2);

while($data = mysql_fetch_array($result2))
{
    var_dump($data);
}

mysql_fetch_array only returns one row at a time. The code above loops all the rows find in your database. If you only want to count the rows, then check mysql_num_rows() function.

You should also use mysqli_* and not mysql_*, because it’s deprecated. Please read more at:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php