MySQL returns only one row

Question

I have this simple PHP code:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT `title`, `url_title` FROM `fastsearch` WHERE `tags` LIKE '%$q%' LIMIT 5");
    $query2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($quer);
    print_r($query2);

It only returns this:

Array ( [title] => Kill Bill Vol 1. [url_title] => kill_bill_vol_1 )

I have 3500+ rows in the table, and running the SQL in PhpMyAdmin works perfectly.

Answer 1

$query = mysql_query("SELECT `title`,
                             `url_title`
                        FROM `fastsearch`
                       WHERE `tags`
                            LIKE '%$q%'
                       LIMIT 5");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
    print_r($row);
}

• You misspelled $query in your example
• mysql_fetch_assoc() will return a row each time it is called, and FALSE when out of rows. Use that to your advantage, by assigning a variable to it in the condition. Within the while() loop, $row will be the current row.

Answer 2

Right, you are not fetching the results properly.

mysql_fetch_assoc() only returns one row at a time. Use a loop to read all rows.

$query = mysql_query("SELECT `title`, `url_title` FROM `fastsearch` WHERE `tags` LIKE '%$q%' LIMIT 5");

$resultSet = array();
while ($cRecord = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
  $resultSet[] = $cRecord;
}