MYSQL - Select specific value from a fetched array

Question

I have a small problem and since I am very new to all this stuff, I was not successful on googling it, because I dont know the exact definitions for what I am looking for.

Answer 1

Yes, ideally you have to write another sql query to filter your results. If you had :

SELECT * FROM Employes

then you can filter it with :

SELECT * FROM Employes WHERE Name="Paul";

if you want every names that start with a P, you can achieve this with :

SELECT * FROM Employes WHERE Name LIKE "P%";

The main reason to use a sql query to filter your data is that the database manager systems like MySQL/MSSQL/Oracle/etc are highly optimized and they're way faster than a server-side condition block in PHP.