PHP get data from database and put the data into a string - php

Question

I am still new to PHP. I have tried a few stuff, but I just can't get it to work.
Question: I want all the data from my users table to be in a string, separated by comma. Then when the ID is 2 to be ; for net new row, so on and so forth. If someone can please help me.
$server = "localhost";
$user_name = "root";
$password = "";
$database = "users";
$conn = new mysqli($server, $user_name, $password, $database);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Users;";
$result = $conn ->query($sql);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result )) {
$rows = implode (";",$result);
$array = $rows;
echo $array;
}
Question2: But if I want first row of DB data to be, separated and then at the end with a ;. How would I do that?
Output: The output of this code is:
Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed

Answer 1

You've simply used the wrong variable in your call to ìmplode.
You've assigned all the columns as an array to $row - but you're trying to implode $result.
Update that line to this:
$rows = implode(";", $row);

Answer 2

Let's say your user table has 2 fields Firstname and Lastname. What I understood from your question is you want your output to be something like
$array = ['steve,jobs;', 'mark,zukerberg;'];
To achieve this you can append ';' at the end of the string.
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result )) {
$rows = implode(',',$row) . ';'; //you have named this variable $rows but it is going to have data of a single row
$array = $rows; //you could directly var_dump($rows) instead of assigning it to a new variable
echo $array; //you could rather use var_dump($array) for this
}