Selecting multiple rows in a table - php

Question

I need to select multiple comments (if there are any) based on the photo_id. As I understand it you can use the WHERE clause but I'm not exactly sure how to select multiple ones and store them in some kind of array?
e.g.
$result = mysqli_query($conn,"SELECT * FROM comments WHERE photo_id='$photo1id'");
$row = $result->fetch_assoc(); // but there's more than 1 row
If for example $photo1id == 21, how do I get all the comments (2 in this case)? Some kind of while loop?
At the end of the PHP file I have this:
echo json_encode(array('photo1id'=>$photo1id));
I need to store each row in that array somehow because I need to retrieve the data in another PHP file using $.getJSON. Or perhaps there is a better solution to this.

Answer 1

Loop through it and generate an array -
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$comments[] = $row;
}
After that you can send the array as json.
echo json_encode($comments);

Answer 2

Is there is more rows, you need to use a loop.
while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
// your code here
}

Answer 3

Try the code below:
//Run query
$result = mysqli_query($conn,"SELECT * FROM comments WHERE photo_id='$photo1id'");
//While there is a result, fetch it
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
//Do what you need to do with the comment
}
If you don't want to print the code straight away you can just create an array:
$x=0;
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$comment[$x]=$row['comment'];
$x++;
}