RE: [PHP-DB] best way to iterate through DB_Result the second time around?
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Mon, 03 Feb 2003 04:22:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] best way to iterate through DB_Result the second time around? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> Iterating over a result set is eaasy the first time;
>
> while( $group_data = $result->fetchRow( DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC ) )
> {
> blah.......
> }
>
>
> How come DB_Result doesn't have a reset() function so you can iterate
over
> the result set a second time without having to resort to this sort of
> thing?
>
> for( $i = 0; $i < $result->numRows(); $i++ ) // Have to iterate
through
>
> // result set on the
second
> pass
> {
> $group_data = $result->fetchRow( DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC, $i );
> blah......
> }
It depends on your database... If you're using MySQL, see if whatever
class you're using has a wrapper for mysql_data_seek(). It will do what
you want rather easily.
---John W. Holmes...
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