How to go through mysql result twice?

For whatever reason I need to go through a mysql result set twice. Is there a way to do it? I don't want to run the query twice and I don't want to have to rewrite the script so that it stores the rows somewhere and then reuses them later.

 Answers

This is how you can do it:

$result = mysql_query(/* Your query */);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 // do whatever here...
}

// set the pointer back to the beginning
mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 // do whatever here...
}

However, I would have to say, this doesn't seem the right way to handle this. Why not do the processing within the first loop?

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Alternative to the data seek is to store the values into an array:

$arrayVals = array();
$result = mysql_query(/* Your query */);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    $arrayVals[] = $row;
}

// Now loop over the array twice instead

$len = count($arrayVals);
for($x = 0; $x < $len; $x++) {
    $row = $arrayVals[$x];

    // Do something here    
}

$len = count($arrayVals);
for($x = 0; $x < $len; $x++) {
    $row = $arrayVals[$x];

    // Do something else here   
}

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I confess I haven't tried this, but have you tried after your first iteration

mysql_data_seek($queryresult,0);

to go to the first record?

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Well, you could always count the number of rows you read, and then do something like this:

if (rownumber == mysql_num_rows($result)) { mysql_data_seek($result, 0); }

Don't know why you would need to, but there it is.