[php] How to echo out table rows from the db (php)

i want to echo out everything from a particular query. If echo $res I only get one of the strings. If I change the 2nd mysql_result argument I can get the 2nd, 2rd etc but what I want is all of them, echoed out one after the other. How can I turn a mysql result into something I can use?

I tried:

$query="SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE";
$results = mysql_query($query);
$res = mysql_result($results, 0);

while ($res->fetchInto($row)) {
    echo "<form id=\"$row[0]\" name=\"$row[0]\" method=post action=\"\"><td style=\"border-bottom:1px solid black\">$row[0]</td><td style=\"border-bottom:1px solid black\"><input type=hidden name=\"remove\" value=\"$row[0]\"><input type=submit value=Remove></td><tr></form>\n";
}

Expanding on the accepted answer:

function mysql_query_or_die($query) {
    $result = mysql_query($query);
    if ($result)
        return $result;
    else {
        $err = mysql_error();
        die("<br>{$query}<br>*** {$err} ***<br>");
    }
}

...
$query = "SELECT * FROM my_table";
$result = mysql_query_or_die($query);
echo("<table>");
$first_row = true;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    if ($first_row) {
        $first_row = false;
        // Output header row from keys.
        echo '<tr>';
        foreach($row as $key => $field) {
            echo '<th>' . htmlspecialchars($key) . '</th>';
        }
        echo '</tr>';
    }
    echo '<tr>';
    foreach($row as $key => $field) {
        echo '<td>' . htmlspecialchars($field) . '</td>';
    }
    echo '</tr>';
}
echo("</table>");

Benefits:

• Using mysql_fetch_assoc (instead of mysql_fetch_array with no 2nd parameter to specify type), we avoid getting each field twice, once for a numeric index (0, 1, 2, ..), and a second time for the associative key.

• Shows field names as a header row of table.

• Shows how to get both column name ($key) and value ($field) for each field, as iterate over the fields of a row.

• Wrapped in <table> so displays properly.

• (OPTIONAL) dies with display of query string and mysql_error, if query fails.

Example Output:

Id      Name
777     Aardvark
50      Lion
9999    Zebra

Nested loop to display all rows & columns of resulting table:

$rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
$cols = mysql_num_fields($result);
for( $i = 0; $i<$rows; $i++ ) {
   for( $j = 0; $j<$cols; $j++ ) {
     echo mysql_result($result, $i, $j)."<br>";
   }
}

Can be made more complex with data decryption/decoding, error checking & html formatting before display.

Tested in MS Edge & G Chrome, PHP 5.6

$sql = "SELECT * FROM YOUR_TABLE_NAME";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql); // First parameter is just return of "mysqli_connect()" function
echo "<br>";
echo "<table border='1'>";
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) { // Important line !!!
    echo "<tr>";
    foreach ($row as $field => $value) { // If you want you can right this line like this: foreach($row as $value) {
        echo "<td>" . $value . "</td>"; 
    }
    echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

In PHP 7.x You should use mysqli functions and most important one in while loop condition use "mysqli_fetch_assoc()" function not "mysqli_fetch_array()" one. If you would use "mysqli_fetch_array()", you will see your results are duplicated. Just try these two and see the difference.

All of the snippets on this page can be dramatically reduced in size.

The mysqli result set object can be immediately fed to a foreach() (because it is "iterable") which eliminates the need to maked iterated _fetch() calls.

Imploding each row will allow your code to correctly print all columnar data in the result set without modifying the code.

$sql = "SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE";
echo '<table>';
    foreach (mysqli_query($conn, $sql) as $row) {
        echo '<tr><td>' . implode('</td><td>', $row) . '</td></tr>';
    }
echo '</table>';

If you want to encode html entities, you can map each row:

implode('</td><td>' . array_map('htmlspecialchars', $row))

If you don't want to use implode, you can simply access all row data using associative array syntax. ($row['id'])

 $result= mysql_query("SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE");
 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
      echo $row['whatEverColumnName'];
 }