I want to put a while loop into an array - php

Question

I have a multidimensional array where under "images" I want to loop 4 rows from my database. It means I am trying to put a loop into an array. Help me.
$sql_album = "SELECT * FROM albums";
$res_album = mysql_query($sql_album) or die(mysql_error());
$albums = array();
while ($row_album = mysql_fetch_assoc($res_album)) {
$albums[$row_album['title']] = array(
"description" => $row_album['description'],
"date" => $row_album['date'],
"images" => array(
//i want to insert a loop here shown down
)
);
}
This is the loop i want to insert where i wrote the comment in the upper script:
$sql_thumb = "SELECT * FROM photos WHERE album_id = '".$row_album['id']."' LIMIT 0, 4";
$res_thumb = mysql_query($sql_thumb) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row_thumb = mysql_fetch_assoc($res_thumb)) {
echo $row_thumb['thumb_url'];
}

Answer 1

Start here...
include('../path/to/mysqli/connection/statements');
$query = "
SELECT a.id
, a.title
, a.description
, a.date
, p.thumb_url
FROM albums a
LEFT
JOIN photos p
ON p.album_id = a.id
ORDER
BY a.id;
";
$result = mysqli_fetch_assoc($db,$query);

Answer 2

Sadly PHP does not allow this kind of usage. You could however do something like this
$sql_album = "SELECT * FROM albums";
$res_album = mysql_query($sql_album) or die(mysql_error());
$albums = array();
while ($row_album = mysql_fetch_assoc($res_album)) {
$albums[$row_album['title']] = array(
"description" => $row_album['description'],
"date" => $row_album['date'],
"images" => array()
);
$sql_thumb = "SELECT * FROM photos WHERE album_id = '".$row_album['id']."' LIMIT 0, 4";
$res_thumb = mysql_query($sql_thumb) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row_thumb = mysql_fetch_assoc($res_thumb)) {
$albums[$row_album['title']]["images"][] = row_thumb['thumb_url'];
}
}