if you insist in using your existing loop, try this (in pseudo-code)
min_date = some really large date (31-Dec-2100 maybe?)
max_date = some really small date (01-Jan-1970 maybe?)
while (row = fetch(result))
{
if (curr_date > max_date) max_date = curr_date
if (curr_date < min_date) min_date = curr_date
...
// other code here
}
same logic can be used for numbers, strings, etc, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:13 PM
To: Jason Soza
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Date Q
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Jason Soza wrote:
> Thanks for the code, but I already have:
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
>
> And I use while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) along with
extract($row)
> to get my data.
>
> It's been my general understanding that querying twice in one script is
bad.
> How do I incorporate your code into my script w/o querying again?
What's bad is using more database queries than you need.
If you need to know two different things, query twice.
miguel
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