how to store associative array php MySQL - php

Question

I want to store result of a query as associative array. Below is my code that generates the query result below.
<?php
$include('config.php') //mysql connection file
$result = mysql_query("SELECT daystime.*, Sprinkler_ID FROM daystime, scheduler WHERE daystime.id = scheduler.DaysTime_ID ORDER BY daystime.id, Sprinkler_ID") or trigger_error(mysql_error());
$data_array = array();
while($rs = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$key=$rs['id'];
$value=$rs['Sprinkler_ID'];
$data_array[$key] = [$value];
}
foreach ($data_array as $key => $value)
{
echo $key.'=>'.$value.'<br />';
}
?>
This gives me output as
19=>Array
20=>Array
21=>Array
27=>Array
29=>Array
But I should get
19 -> [4,5],
20 -> [5],
21=>[4,6],
// and so on

Answer 1

$value is an array, you can't use echo on arrays
Don't loop just do a var_dump()
$data_array = array();
while($rs = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
$data_array[$rs['id']][]=$rs['Sprinkler_ID'];
}
var_dump($data_array);//or print_r($data_array);

Answer 2

<?php
$include('config.php') //mysql connection file
$result = mysql_query("SELECT daystime.*, Sprinkler_ID FROM daystime, scheduler WHERE daystime.id = scheduler.DaysTime_ID ORDER BY daystime.id, Sprinkler_ID") or trigger_error(mysql_error());
$data_array = array();
while($rs = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$key=$rs['id'];
$value=$rs['Sprinkler_ID'];
$data_array[$key] = [$value];
}
$out = '';
$count = count($data_array);
$iter = 0;
foreach ($data_array as $key => $value)
{
$out.= $key.'=>[';
foreach ($value as $val) {
$out.=$val.',';
}
$out = rtrim($out, ",");
$out.= ']';
if ($iter < ($count-1)) {
$out.=',<br />';
}
$iter++;
}
echo $out;
You need an inner foreach loop to handle printing the array in $value as this is a multi dimensional array. The preceding is an example of how it could look to produce the exact output you requested. If you are looking for a dump of the values, then please use the var_dump solution provided by #meda.

Answer 3

There are two issues in your code. The first is that $value is an array, the second is that this array only contains one item.
Try this:
$data_array = array();
while($rs = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
$key=$rs['id'];
$value=$rs['Sprinkler_ID'];
$data_array[$key][] = $value;
}
foreach ($data_array as $key => $values)
{
echo $key.'=> [';
foreach($values as $value)
echo $value . ',';
echo ']<br />';
}