php getting values out of an array with same 'id' number - php

Question

I'm having trouble getting the value out of an array
Array
(
[0] => id
[column_name] => id
)
Array
(
[0] => businessType
[column_name] => businessType
)
Array
(
[0] => name
[column_name] => name
)
Array
(
[0] => city
[column_name] => city
)
...
I'm getting those values from
mysql_query("
SELECT column_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name='businessUpgrade'
")
And in my while loop
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
while($column = mysql_fetch_array($colName)){
if($row[$i] == 1){
//here comes the missing part
}
$i++;
}
}
I tried diffrent things, but according to print_r, the values I need to get have the same number of id (0). Is there any way, I can get the values out of this array.
I found that I should do it with foreach, but somehow everything I try it fails.

Answer 1

There is no need to use 2 while loops.
The $row array is an associative array, so you can use...
$columns = array();
// {query}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$columns[] = $row['column_name'];
}
var_dump($columns);
Your $columns array now contains an index of all the columns. It's a zero-index, so these can be pulled individually using:
echo $columns[0]; // The first column from the query "id"
echo $columns[2]; // The third column from the query "name"
You can also loop this array as needed.
foreach ($columns as $id => $column) {
if ($id == 0) {
// Do something with the first column:
echo $column;
} elseif ($id == 2) {
// Do something with the third column:
echo $column;
}
}

Answer 2

try this
$res = mysql_query("
SELECT column_name
FROM information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name='businessUpgrade'
");
while($r = mysql_fetch_row($res)){
$arr[]=$r;
}
NOTE . do not use mysql. Try mysqli or PDO instead.

Answer 3

And with this:
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
while($column = mysql_fetch_assoc($colName)){
if(($column['0'] == $row[$i]) && ($row[$i] == 1)){
//something like this???
}
}
$i++;
}
Your question is a bit messy XD.....i hope this helps anyway.