It's the ';' at the end of the while statement. It runs the loop with no statements in it, then executes the code in brackets. I copied some bum code from a tutorial...
"Peter Lovatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > hi > > The code looks OK > > Try something like > > while ($row = mssql_fetch_array($rs)); > { > echo "another row<br>"; > echo $row["ItemClassKey"]; > echo "<br>"; > } > } > > to see if it is looping thro the results, if so then the array > $row["ItemClassKey"] is empty - check the obvious - index case and that > there is data in the field in the record. > > If it is not looping thro then could the if($rs) be moving the pointer to > the end of he result set, so there is nothing left to loop thro? > > hth > > Peter > > ----------------------------------------------- > Excellence in internet and open source software > ----------------------------------------------- > Sunmaia > www.sunmaia.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel. 0121-242-1473 > ----------------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Benjamin Walling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 13 May 2002 22:16 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [PHP-DB] mssql_fetch_array not working? > > > > > > I apologize if the answer to this is incredibly simple. I'm > > trying to learn > > PHP, and evaluate whether to change our site away from ASP. > > > > I have the following php code, and I can't get any results. > > > > I have add the line echo mssql_num_rows($rs); to see how many rows are > > returned, and I get 11 (there are 11 rows in this table). > > > > The page outputs only "11<br>Done". Why am I not getting any thing into > > $row? Why do I only get 1 <br> (I would expect 11)? > > > > --Begin Code > > > > $db = mssql_connect("domino","uid","pwd"); > > if ($db) > > { > > $dbs = mssql_select_db("acuity_edd_app",$db) > > or die("Couldn't set DB"); > > $sql = "SELECT * FROM timItemClass ORDER BY ItemClassID"; > > $rs = mssql_query($sql); > > echo mssql_num_rows($rs); > > if ($rs) > > { > > while ($row = mssql_fetch_array($rs)); > > { > > echo $row["ItemClassKey"]; > > echo "<br>"; > > } > > }else{ > > echo "No results\n"; > > } > > echo "Done\n"; > > }else{ > > echo "Unable to connect to database.\n"; > > } > > > > --End Code > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
