how can we handle while loop iteration? - php

Question

I am having block of code which is working fine but the problem is that...
in one loop it print 'one' qoute.
in 2nd both 'one' and 'two'
in third all three
...so on till the loop execute.
I want to print only one in first time and second qoute in second time and so on till loop executes.
here is my block of code
<div class="records round">
<?php
//show records
$query = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT table2.col2 AS a,table1.col2 AS b, table1.col1 AS c, table1.q_url AS d
FROM {$statement}
LIMIT {$startpoint} , {$limit}");
$output='';
$Authorname='';
$count=1;
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query)) {
$Authorname =$row['a'];
$url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
$url=explode('/',$url);
?>
<div class="record round"><?php echo $count; $output .='<a href="http://localhost/quotes/'.$url[5].'/'.$row['d'].'.html">';
echo $output .=$row['b'].'</a>';?></div>
<?php
$count++;
}
?>
</div>

Answer 1

What you are doing here appending string to $output variable so at each iteration its keeping appending.
Your $output variable must be empty before performing new iteration.
Thats the reason you are getting such output.
So to avoid this you have to reinitialize $output variable inside the loop.
Check below code:
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query)) {
$output='';
$Authorname =$row['a'];
$url = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
$url=explode('/',$url);
?>
<div class="record round"><?php echo $count; $output .='<a href="http://localhost/quotes/'.$url[5].'/'.$row['d'].'.html">';
echo $output .=$row['b'].'</a>';?></div>
<?php
$count++;
}