How to echo data from id - php

Question

I assume this must be simple, but I'm just stuck on a solution here. How would I echo data from the id in the database? I cannot edit the css div where I display this data so need to find out a way to cut down the PHP, for example:
<? $query = "SELECT * FROM example WHERE id='1'";
$result_1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id=1");
$result_2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id=2");
$result_3 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id=3");
while($row_1 = mysql_fetch_array($result_1))
while($row_2 = mysql_fetch_array($result_2))
while($row_3 = mysql_fetch_array($result_3))
{ ?>
From here I echo the data in a div:
<? echo $row_1['name'] ?>
What I am trying to do is something like this: echo $row_1['name']['1']. I want to somewhat use the WHERE id=1 inside my echo. Sorry if this is not clear.
Thanks

Answer 1

You can easily do:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3)");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo ($row['id'] == 1) ? $row['id'] : ''; // print id only when id == 1
}
Notice: This extension (mysql_*) is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0, and will be removed in the future. Instead, the MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extension should be used.

Answer 2

Try something like this:
<?
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `example`"); // Select all columns and rows from the example table
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { // For each row returned
print($row['id'] . " - " . $row['name'] . "<br />\n"); // Print the row's ID and name
}
?>

Answer 3

You can try to do an if() just before the echo, like below:
<? if($row_1['id'] == 1) echo $row_1['name']; ?>
Or from what we know, your results in $row_1 will always have id == 1, since you specified it in the query.
Hope this helps, good luck :)

Answer 4

Try this:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM example WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3)");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo ($row['id'] == 1) ? $row['id'] : ''; // print id only when id == 1
}