How can I loop through a MySQL result set more than once using the mysql_* functions?

For whatever reason, I need to go through a MySQL result set twice. Is there a way to do it?

I don't want to run the query twice and I don't want to have to rewrite the script so that it stores the rows somewhere and then reuses them later.

This is how you can do it:

$result = mysql_query(/* Your query */);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 // do whatever here...
}

// set the pointer back to the beginning
mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
 // do whatever here...
}

However, I would have to say, this doesn't seem the right way to handle this. Why not do the processing within the first loop?

For mysqli you should do the following;

$result= $con->query($sql); // $con is the connection object
$result->data_seek(0); 

Try whether mysql_data_seek() does what you need.

mysql_data_seek() moves the internal row pointer of the MySQL result associated with the specified result identifier to point to the specified row number. The next call to a MySQL fetch function, such as mysql_fetch_assoc(), would return that row.

row_number starts at 0. The row_number should be a value in the range from 0 to mysql_num_rows() - 1. However if the result set is empty (mysql_num_rows() == 0), a seek to 0 will fail with a E_WARNING and mysql_data_seek() will return FALSE

Alternative to the data seek is to store the values into an array:

$arrayVals = array();
$result = mysql_query(/* Your query */);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    $arrayVals[] = $row;
}

// Now loop over the array twice instead

$len = count($arrayVals);
for($x = 0; $x < $len; $x++) {
    $row = $arrayVals[$x];

    // Do something here    
}

$len = count($arrayVals);
for($x = 0; $x < $len; $x++) {
    $row = $arrayVals[$x];

    // Do something else here   
}