Re: Select and loop through records???

From: Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 01:50:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Select and loop through records???
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On 5 Aug, Curtis Cole wrote: > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > > <html> > <head> > <title>Learning PHP</title> > </head> > > <body> > > > <? > $connection = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password") or > die > ("Unable to connect to MySQL server."); > $db = mysql_select_db("name_of_database") or die ("Unable to select > requested database."); > ?> > > how do I select all records from a table???????????????? > > <table> > <tr> > <td>display field 1</td> > <td>display field 2</td> > <td>display field 3</td> > </tr> > > how do i display each record???????????????? > > do while records are not end of file > <tr> > <td>display field 1</td> > <td>display field 2</td> > <td>display field 3</td> > </tr> > records movenenet > loop > > </table> > The example in the manual for mysql_fetch_array() shows a loop using While. To select all records in a table, use SELECT * FROM table. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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