Re: MySQL Query Weirdness

When you use mysql_fetch_array you're actually retrieving an array with two copies of the value you're looking for. One is indexed by the column number and one indexed by the column name. So it looks like you're looping through them both and printing each out. You might want mysql_fetch_assoc (to use just the column name) or mysql_fetch_row (to use just the column number) -Steve On Thursday, September 20, 2001, at 05:02 PM, Chris S. wrote:

Hello, I'm new at this php/mysql stuff, so go easy on my guys. I've got my query script up and working, but the problem is I'm getting the same column printed twice on the html output. Here is the output: Connected successfully Chris Chris Mark Mark Mike Mike Dee Dee etc... Here is my .php script: <?php

    $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "dbuser","dbpassword")
            or die ("Could not connect");
    print ("Connected successfully");
    mysql_select_db ("dapscores") or die ("Could not select database");

    $query   = "SELECT first_name FROM overall_results";
    $result  = mysql_query ($query) or die ("Query failed");

    // printing HTML result

    print "<table>\n";
    while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        print "\t<tr>\n";
        while(list($col_name, $col_value) = each($line)) {
            print "\t\t<td>$col_value</td>\n";
        }
        print "\t</tr>\n";
    }

    print "</table>\n";

    mysql_close($link);

?> Here is my database layout: mysql> describe overall_results; +---------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| Field         | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra |

+---------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

| Match_Date    | date        | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Place         | varchar(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Last_Name     | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| First_Name    | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| USPSA         | varchar(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Class         | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Division      | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| PF            | varchar(7)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Lady          | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Mil           | varchar(4)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Law           | varchar(4)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| F0r           | char(3)     | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Age           | varchar(20) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Match_Pts     | float       | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| Match_percent | float       | YES  |     | NULL    |       |

+---------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ If I run the query from mysql>, it works fine, just the HTML output shows the double column thing. Is this a database problem? I've tried different variations of my script and I get the same output each time. Thanks -- Chris S. chris@c62023-a.wntck1.sfba.home.com PGP 0xDA39672B -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net