MYSQL SELECT statement with variable based on PHP for loop - php

Question

Currently, $selection outputs the following: MIN(Bale_ID), MIN(Incoming_Moisture) which is exactly what it should be outputting (they're names from another table). However, when I put $selection into the mysql_query $data1, it seems to just be reading the last value (MIN(Incoming_Moisture)) and only displays the results for that. How do I get the query to read the entire array of elements in $selection? Thank you!!
while ($row1 = mysql_fetch_array($fieldnames1)) {
$fields = $row1['fields1'];
$explode = explode(',',$fields);
if ($row1) {
for ($i=0; $i<$minrows; $i++) {
if ($i<$minrows-1){
$comma = ", ";
}
else {
$comma = "";
}
//$selection = "MIN(".$explode[$i].")".$comma;
//echo $selection;
$data1 = mysql_query("SELECT MIN(".$explode[$i].")".$comma." from data WHERE (fchmitimestamp LIKE CONCAT(#year,'%',#month,'%',#day,'_________'))");
$all1 = mysql_num_fields($data1); //return # of columns; for some reason is returning "1" right now.
while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($data1)) {
for ($col=0; $col<$all1; $col++) {
echo $all1;
echo "<td>Min: " . $row2[$col] . "</td>";
}
echo "</tr>";
}
}
}
}
echo "</table>";

Answer 1

Look at the order of operations in your code:
loop {
... fetch data ...
... assign results to $data1 ...
}
Nowhere in your loop do you output or save the results you've got in $data1, so each iteration of the loop overwrites the results of the previous iteration - in other words, only the LAST iteration's results will be stored.

Answer 2

you are running the query once per for loop cycle (1 field at a time) and since first ones yields in SQL error because of the trailin comma, these will not be echoed except the last one.
-- notice the error in first query
SELECT MIN(Bale_ID), from data WHERE (fchmitimestamp LIKE CONCAT(#year,'%',#month,'%',#day,'_________'))
SELECT MIN(Incoming_Moisture) from data WHERE (fchmitimestamp LIKE CONCAT(#year,'%',#month,'%',#day,'_________'))
use var_dump($selection) instead of echo $selection to see yourself