Probably a more efficient way to do this is to put a LIMIT qualifier on your
query (see the MySQL docs). Then you won't retrieve rows you are not going
to use anyway.
Kirk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] How to limit a WHILE statement?
>
>
> Dear PHP Helpers,
>
> What is your recommendation on limiting a while
> statement so that it only iterates a maximum of 20
> times?
>
> Here is the code snippet:
>
> $result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
>
> while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
>
> printf("Name: <b><font color=\"green\" size=\"5s\">%s
> %s %s %s\n<br></b></font>", $myrow["salutation"],
> $myrow["first_name"], $myrow["mid_name"],
> $myrow["user_name"]);
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bob Stone
>
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