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I have a PHP function that runs a SELECT Query in SQL:
if(!function_exists("SelectQuery")) {
function SelectQuery ($sql) {
global $conn;
$SelectQuery = mysql_query($sql,$conn);
return $NumRows=mysql_num_rows($SelectQuery);
$SelectQuery_Results=array();
while($SelectQuery_Row = mysql_fetch_array($SelectQuery)) {
$SelectQuery_Results[] = $SelectQuery_Row;
}
return $SelectQuery_Results;
}
}
then i am calling it here:
$sql="SELECT * from tickets where ticketnumber = '".$_GET["seq"]."' ";
$ticket = SelectQuery($sql);
foreach($ticket as $ticket2) {
}
rather than using a foreach loop what else could i use as my query will only be returning one row and i dont want to put my whole page within a loop
i tried just removing the foreach loop but that didnt work

Answer 1

Just access your value as $ticket[0].

Answer 2

A function cannot return two values for a single call. So, remove
return $NumRows=mysql_num_rows($SelectQuery);
You can check the array size for the number of rows in result.
If you want to echo out the result the following code will be ok!
if( sizeof($ticket) > 1 ){
foreach($ticket as $ticket2){
for($i=0; $i<sizeof($ticket2)/2; $i++)
echo "[" . $ticket2[$i] . "]";
echo "<br />";
}
}

Answer 3

$ticket is an integer see :
return $NumRows=mysql_num_rows($SelectQuery);
So you juste have to use $ticket.
If you want the row, remove this useless return in the SelectQuery function and use $ticket[0] for the first and only row.
Change the function with this :
function SelectQuery ($sql) {
global $conn;
$SelectQuery = mysql_query($sql,$conn);
$NumRows=mysql_num_rows($SelectQuery);
$SelectQuery_Results=array();
if ($numRows>1) {
while($SelectQuery_Row = mysql_fetch_array($SelectQuery)) {
$SelectQuery_Results[] = $SelectQuery_Row;
}
}
else $SelectQuery_Results = mysql_fetch_array($SelectQuery);
return $SelectQuery_Results;
}
Then use :
$sql="SELECT * from tickets where ticketnumber = '".$_GET["seq"]."' ";
$ticket = SelectQuery($sql);
if (is_array($ticket)) { foreach loop; }
else { use directly ticket['attribute'] }