drupal 6 php array of arrays not working - php

Question

I'm trying to put values into name arrays from a table and array entries are over-riding each other
Code:
$list = array();
$name = db_query("SELECT name FROM {name_list}");
while ($num = db_fetch_array($name)){
$list[$num['name']]=array('title'=>$num['name']);
}
$values = db_query("SELECT id,name1,name2 FROM {status}");
while ($val = db_fetch_array($values)){
$list[$val['name1']] = array($val['id'] =>$val['id']);
$list[$val['name2']] = array($val['id'] =>$val['id']);
}
$output .= dprint_r($list);
The first while loop writes the titles of each array which are the names from the name db table.
The table:
name
Alice
Kate
Jason
John
Sam
the second while loop goes into the status table which looks something like:
id name1 name2
1 Alice Kate
2 Jason Kate
3 Kate Alice
4 Jason John
The final arrays should look something like:
Alice array (
1,3);
Jason array (
2,4);
Kate array (
1,2,3);
Sam array (
); etc...
Instead its looking like alice (3) Jason(4) Kate(3) etc...

Answer 1

Although I have no drupal for testing the error seems clear. Use the [] operator to push elements to the end of the id-per-name array. Try :
$list = array();
$name = db_query("SELECT name FROM {name_list}");
while ($num = db_fetch_array($name)){
$list[$num['name']]=array(); // initialize as empty array. you won't need the name
// twice as its already the index to $list
}
$values = db_query("SELECT id,name1,name2 FROM {status}");
while ($val = db_fetch_array($values)){
$list[$val['name1']][] = $val['id']; // add id to the first name's list
$list[$val['name2']][] = $val['id']; // add id to the second name's list
}