Returning a variable to the top of the page

[suttercain]

Hello everyone,

I have

<?php
echo "<div class=\"results\">$total results matching $engfam.</div><br />"; 
echo "Level 3: $level3"; //need the information to echo here
$level3 = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
if ($row['level'] == "3") {
$level3++;
} 
echo "<div class=\"bottomCont\">";
echo "<table width=\"500px\" border=\"0\">";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td class=\"number\" width=\"50px\" rowspan=\"3\">". $row['level'] ."</td>";
echo "<td width=\"225px\"><span class=\"outsideTheBox\">Engine Family Name:</span></td>";
echo "<td width=\"225px\">" . $row['engfam'] ."</td>";
//more code...

How can I get the $level3 variable to echo data in the incrementing takes place after where I need to echo the information?

Hope that makes sense... the code should.

Thanks
SC

[NogDog]

You could just use [man]mysql_num_rows/man to get the number of results.

[suttercain]

You could use that to get specific results nad not just the total mysql result?

The query displays Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 items. I can use mysql_num_rows to tell me how many are Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3?

Thanks for your time.

[NogDog]

No, I didn't understand that aspect of it. In that case, you could loop through the query results and append any text to be output to a variable, while also doing your level 3 counting. Then output your level 3 total, and then finally output the result text from the variable to which you wrote the outputs.