pdo how to check if it is 1st record that retrieve from database?

Question

              $sql3 = \"SELECT member FROM levels where upline = ? AND level=1\";
              $q3 = $conn->prepare($sql3);
              $q3->execute(array(\"$le         


        

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understood you correctly, but you want to do a special action for the first row,

$sql3 = "SELECT member FROM levels where upline = ? AND level=1";
$q3 = $conn->prepare($sql3);
$q3->execute(array("$level2downlines"));
$first_row = true;
while($r3 = $q3->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
    $level3downlines = $r3['member'];
    if ($first_row){
        echo "make orange juice";
        $first_row = false;
    }else{
        echo "make all juice";
    }
}

UPDATE: Michael Berkowski's answer is better and faster.