PHP arrays, getting multi-dimensional data from for reach - php

Question

I've looked on stackoverflow for the answer, but no one explains it properly.
I have a while loop that works:
info = array();
while($get_info= mysql_fetch_array($info_result)){
$info['team_id'] = $get_info['team_id'];
$info['team_points'] = $get_info['team_points'];
}
And when I print out the array:
Array ( [team_id] => 26 [team_points] => 100 )
But my foreach returns an invalid argument.
foreach ($info as $info_mation ){
echo $info_mation['team_id'];
echo $info_mation['team_points'];
echo "<br/>";
}
I've tried many different ways but nothing works.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Problem is in fetching data from DB. Modify your while loop like this:
info = array();
while($get_info = mysql_fetch_array($info_result)){
$temp_info = array();
$temp_info['team_id'] = $get_info['team_id'];
$temp_info['team_points'] = $get_info['team_points'];
$info[] = $temp_info;
}
Now your foreach loop should work properly.

Answer 2

Here is a bit more explanation, if what you've seen so far doesn't make sense. When you do this:
$info = array();
while($get_info = mysql_fetch_array($info_result)) {
$info['team_id'] = $get_info['team_id'];
$info['team_points'] = $get_info['team_points'];
}
You are overwriting $info with each iteration of the while loop. So at the end of your loop, $info will only contain the last row of your query result.
This explains the result you see:
Array ( [team_id] => 26 [team_points] => 100 )
So when you iterate this array with
foreach ($info as $info_mation ){
echo $info_mation['team_id'];
echo $info_mation['team_points'];
echo "<br/>";
}
$info_mation will contain 26, and then 100, which are indeed invalid for foreach.
You need to create a multidimensional array rather than a one-dimensional array. You can do that by modifying your while loop slightly:
while($get_info= mysql_fetch_array($info_result)) {
$info[] = $get_info;
}
Doing it this way adds a new array element to the $info array with each iteration, rather than overwriting the same two elements repeatedly.

Answer 3

this is your code:
info = array();
while($get_info= mysql_fetch_array($info_result)){
$info['team_id'] = $get_info['team_id'];
$info['team_points'] = $get_info['team_points'];
}
change it to this:
$info = array();
while($get_info= mysql_fetch_array($info_result)){
$info[] = array(
'team_id' => $get_info['team_id'],
'team_points' => $get_info['team_points']
);
}
so, your $info variable contains all the array from the sql result you made.
foreach($info as $inf) {
echo $inf['team_id'];
echo $inf['team_points'];
echo '<br>';
}
and we're done! :)