Can't fetch multiple rows from table - php

Question

I'm making a page which needs to display all the rows stored in a table named 'events' in a database named 'school'
The problem is that even though I've multiple entries/rows in the table, for some reason only a single row is displayed when I run the page.
Here's my code-
<?php
require("includes/common.php");
$query = "SELECT * FROM school.events";
$result = mysqli_query($con, $query)or die(mysqli_error($con));
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
$ename = $row['name'];
$place = $row['place'];
$date = $row['date'];
?>
.
.
.
<?php
while ($row) {
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $date; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $ename; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $place; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
$name = $row['name'];
$place = $row['place'];
$date = $row['date'];
}
?>

Answer 1

Try instead while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){ ... } , you're just assigning the array to $row, you can't loop an array saying while($array)
Do it this way:
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
echo $row['id'];
echo $row['name'];
}

Answer 2

That is because $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result); will only pull one row and then move the pointer. In order to get all the rows, use a while loop
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
//code to populate table one row at a time
}