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foreach -to- while

I need to covert a threaded (recursive) comment system from PHP/MySQL -to- PHP/ADOdb. However, I am having minor problems with using foreach() loops instead of while() loops, because ADOdb has no "fetch array" functions per say.

Instead of "posting" all of the code:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/stuff3a/functions.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/stuff3a/display_topic.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/stuff3a/write_topic.html

"Any help at all" would be greatly appreciated!

lozloz

could you be a bit more specific as to which while you can't do? and if it has no fetch array, how are you loading the data into your script from the database?

loz

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Ok, quick example

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PHP/MySQL

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<?php
      $query = 'SELECT var, var2 FROM table';
      $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
      while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            extract($row);
            echo $var . '<BR />' . $var2;
      }
?>
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PHP/ADOdb

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<?php
      $query = 'SELECT var, var2 FROM table';
      $results = $db->GetAll($query) or die($db->ErrorMsg());
      foreach($results AS $row) {
            extract($row);
            echo $var . '<BR />' . $var2;
      }
?>
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Now look at the first script here
ttp://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/31/stuff3a/functions.html

I need to convert the while/list() loops to foreach()

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Thank you lozloz, but I am afraid that did NOT work, no errors - just a blank page. Note when you INSERT or UPDATE in ADOdb use the Execute() function rather than the GetAll() function which is for a SELECT.

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