SQL query not displaying the first result?

Question

I am trying to dynamically create a navigation menu in my php page.

I have a query to create a list of the active pages but for some reason the first result never shows

$menu = mysql_query("SELECT link FROM myTable WHERE active_page='y' ORDER BY menu_order");
$menulist = mysql_fetch_array($menu);

  while($menulist = mysql_fetch_array($menu))
  {
  $themenu = $themenu . "<li><a href='#'>" . $menulist['link'] . "</a></li>";
  }

  $echo $themenu;

returns

item 2
item 3
item 4
...

Any ideas why this might be

Answer 1

Remove

$menulist = mysql_fetch_array($menu);

This extraneous call is pulling the first record, but you're not doing anything with it as you are in your where loop.