It worked like a charm. (initially I was trying to use reset() guess it was the wrong call) One other thing, The 1st call was supposed to get the Column Headers and the second to get the results. I thought they are independent of each other?? Guess not? thanks very much. Cheers, Mun Heng, Ow H/M Engineering Western Digital M'sia DID : 03-7870 5168 -----Original Message----- From: Terry Riley [mailto:moscow@cix.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:33 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: WHY need to query 2x to get results Because you have already fetched one row before outputting the record count. Therefore the row pointer is at the second record before you 'print out'. Try putting mysql_data_seek($result,0); in place of your second $result = mysql_query($sql); This should return the pointer to the first retreived record. Hope that helps Terry ----------Original Message--------- > Hi, > > I have a code that goes like this. Scroll down to the "<----------" > sign. How come I need another $result = mysql_query($sql) at that > location? > If I don't have it, the results coming out will only start printing > from the > 2nd Row.. Omitting the 1st. > > Results as wanted > > row 1 value1 > row 2 value2 > row 3 value3 > > Getting this instead > > row 2 value2 > row 3 value3 > > ???? > > Pls Help. > > $result = mysql_query($sql); > > $num_results = mysql_num_rows($result); > > $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); > > echo '<p><h4>There are ' . $num_results; > echo ' FA entries found</p></h4>' . "\n"; > > echo '<table border="2" cellpadding="5">' . "\n"; > echo '<td colspan="' . sizeof($row) . '" align="center" >'; > echo '</td>' . "\n"; > > # =========================== > # Print out the Table Field Names > # =========================== > echo '<!-- Results Table Header Field Names -->'; > echo "\n"; > echo '<tr>' . "\n"; > > for ($k = 0; $k < sizeof($row) ; $k++) > { > echo "\t" . '<td>'; > echo mysql_field_name($result,$k); > echo "</td> \n"; > } > > # =========================== > # Print out the Table Results > # =========================== > > $result = mysql_query($sql); <---------------======WHY Is THIS > needed???? > > for ($i = 0; $i < $num_results ; $i++) > { > echo "<tr>\n" ; > $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); > for ($j = 0; $j < 12 ; $j++) > { > echo "\t" . '<td>'; > echo $row[$j] ; > echo "</td> \n"; > } > > echo "</tr>\n"; > } > Cheers, > Mun Heng, Ow > H/M Engineering > Western Digital M'sia > DID : 03-7870 5168 > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php