Getting exact value from fetched array from MySql - php

Question

Not a duplicate of Select specific value from a fetched array
I have a MySql database as:
Here's my query:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score DESC";
I want it to be a leaderboard which people can update their scores so I can't use
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score DESC WHERE ID = 1";
I want to get Username of the second row in my query.So I wrote:
<?php
include "l_connection.php";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if($result->num_rows>0){
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
}
echo "Result = '".$row[1]['Username']."''";
}
?>
But it returns Result = '' like there's nothing in the array.
But if I write
if($result->num_rows>0){
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
echo "Name = '".$row['Username']."''";
}
}
It will return : Parham, Mojtaba, Gomnam, Masoud,
So what am I doing wrong in the first snippet?

Answer 1

You can not access $row outside of while loop.
So store result in one new array, and then you can access that new array outside the while loop:
$newResult = array();
if($result->num_rows>0){
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
$newResult[] = $row;
}
}
echo "Result = '".$newResult[1]['Username']."''"; // thus you can access second name from array

Answer 2

Because you write where condition after ORDER by at
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score DESC WHERE ID = 1";
The sequence of query is
SELECT * FROM data // select first
WHERE ID = 1
ORDER BY Score DESC// Order by at last
Check http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/select.html
And for second case you need to fetch Username inside while loop and use $row['Username'] instead $row[1]['Username']
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
echo "Result = '".$row['Username']."''";// write inside while loop
}

Answer 3

You can assign row value to any array and use that array.
<?php
include "l_connection.php";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if($result->num_rows>0){
$rows = array();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
$rows[] = $row;
}
echo "Result = '".$rows[1]['Username']."'";
}
?>
Or if you want only second highest score from column you can user limit as
$sql = "SELECT * FROM data ORDER BY Score limit 1,1";