Question

wondered if you can help me with a php/query question.

I want to format the first row differently to the rest of the rows (always 20 returned).

My query looks like this right now:

<?php
$nt=array();
$query="SELECT * FROM  table WHERE field=item ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 20";
$rt=mysql_query($query);
echo mysql_error();

while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($rt)){              
echo "<p class='columnitem'><a href='/item/".$nt[id]."'>".$nt[Title]."</a></p>";
}
?>

Which obviously formats all the rows the same, help please!

Answer 1

Simplest solutions usually work the best:

$row=1;
while($nt=mysql_fetch_array($rt)){                              
if($row==1){
    echo "<p class='firstrow'><a href='/item/".$nt[id]."'>".$nt[Title]."</a></p>";
} else {
    echo "<p class='columnitem'><a href='/item/".$nt[id]."'>".$nt[Title]."</a></p>";
}
$row=$row+1;
}