Displaying distinct data from database - php

Question

I want PHP code for displaying data from database and I want to add a specific class to first <li> .
Below are the statc form of it, but I want it dynamically from my MySQL database.
<ul class="photo">
<li class="first"><img src="images/image1.jpg" alt="" /></li> //only this first line will be giving attribute (class="first")
<li><img src="images/image2.jpg" alt="" /></li>
<li><img src="images/image3.jpg" alt="" /></li>
</ul>
<ul class="text">
<li class="first">
<h2>Image 1 caption</h2>
<p>Story............</p>
<a class="next" href="">Next>></a>
</li>
<li> // this is the caption for the line that will be giving attribute (class="first")
<h2>Image 2 caption</h2>
<p>Stories 2.................</p>
<a class="next" href="">Next>></a>
</li>
<li>
<h2>Image 3 caption</h2>
<p>image 3 story................</p>
<a class="next" href="">Next>></a>
</li>
</ul>

Answer 1

Assuming you hava an array of data from the DB:
<?php
$first = true;
foreach ($array as $item)
{
?>
<li <?php if ($first) { echo "class='first'"; $first = false; } ?>>
<h2><?php echo $item["someheader"]; ?></h2>
</li>
<?php
}
?>
This will loop through all the rows from the db, and assign the first class only to the first row in the list.