I hope the following will be helpful, and it is a bit of a rant ..
<rant>
The row number DOES NOT MATTER and is absolutely irrelevant. MySQL is a
relational database from which information is gathered by means of
comparing fields to key values. Even if you are using an auto-incremented
primary key it serves ONLY AS A LABEL to UNIQUELY identify each row.
If you need sequential numbers, as for membership, devise a script to
manage them and recycle them, if that's what you want.
For the number of returned rows, check mysql_row_count (or similar function).
Recognize that an ORDER BY condition will change the apparent row number.
</rant>
I am v. curious as to why you need to know which row is used for jimmy.
Regards - Miles
At 07:51 PM 3/3/2006, benifactor wrote:
i need to find a way to find out what number of a row is in a database...
for example:
//this is the database
Username: Chuck Password: adsasa
Username: jimmy Password: adsf
Username: stewart Password: dfds
the information i need is what row jimmy resides on..
this is what i tried:
function i_gun ($user) {
global $username;
$gun = mysql_query("select * from users");
while ($d = mysql_fetch_array($gun)) {
while($d[username] != $user) {
$i = $i + 1;
}
}
}
but it always returns 1. can sombody tell me what i am doing wrong or
point me in the right direction in the manual? plase and thank you
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