Echoing user comments

Question

I am having trouble with retreiving user comments.  here is my code:
if(mysql_fetch_array($sql_result) == 0) {
    echo "There are currently no comments to display. Be the first to post one!";
} else {
echo "<table width=\"100% border=2\">";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><b>User</b></td>
<td><b>Date/Time</b></td>
<td><b>Comment</b></td>";
echo "</tr>";
while($sql_row=mysql_fetch_array($sql_result))
$comment=$sql_row["comment"];
$date=date('D, d M Y H:i:s', $sql_row["time"]);
$user = findUserName($sql_row["user"]);
$imgAvatarSrc = "AVATAR IMAGE SOURCE";
?>
SOME HTML HERE
<br />
  <div style="float:right;"><div class="replyBtn"><a href="#btn_comment">Reply</a></div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="padding" style="padding:15px;"></div>
<?php
echo "<tr><td><a href='view_profile.php?user=$user' target='_blank' class='noUnderline'><img src='" . $imgAvatarSrc ."' width=65px height=65px/> " . $user . "</a><br></td></tr>";
echo "<tr><td>".$date."</td>";
echo "<td>".$comment."</td>";
echo "</tr></table>";
if there are no comments related to this image, it shows "be the first to post a comment!"  i can post in the else when there is a comment, but then in the while, nothing is printed out.  not sure where i am going wrong here... i tried removing the "else" statement, and made the while it's statement, and it worked fine. 

Answer 1

You've still go the same problem. You are trying to fetch the values after you have already moved the pointer ahead.
Try.
$sql="Select * from comments WHERE fileRef = '$file'";
$sql_result = mysql_query($sql,$connection1)
    or exit("Sql Error: " . mysql_error());
$sql_num = mysql_num_rows($sql_result);
if(!$sql_row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
    echo "There are currently no comments to display. Be the first to post one!";
} else {
do { 
$comment=$sql_row["comment"];
?>
html
<?php
} while($sql_row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result));
Alternatively, you could just test the value in $sql_num to see if any comments where posted, rather than using mysql_fetch_array. Then you could use your WHILE loop as originally posted. The key here is that once you call mysql_fetch_array, you must echo the results before calling it again.