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Question

I need to build a multidimensional array from records retrieved from my database.
Here is the code I have:
<?php
/*
...some code...
*/
foreach($data['colleges'] as $college)
{
$college_temp[] = $college->name;
$college_temp[] = $college->abbrev;
$college_temp[] = $college->long_name;
$college_temp[] = $college->long_abbrev;
$college_temp[] = $college->url;
$college_temp[] = $college->description;
}
All the records from the database are going one after the other in the array. I need to optimize this using a multidimensional array.

Answer 1

$college_temp = array();
foreach($data['colleges'] as $college)
{
$college_temp[] = $college;
}
// Echo the first one's name
echo $college_temp[0]['name'];
// Echo the second one's url
echo $college_temp[1]['url'];

Answer 2

$college_temp = array();
$i = 0;
foreach($data['colleges'] as $college)
{
$college_temp[$i]['name'] = $college->name;
$college_temp[$i]['abbrev'] = $college->abbrev;
$college_temp[$i]['long_name'] = $college->long_name;
$college_temp[$i]['long_abbrev'] = $college->long_abbrev;
$college_temp[$i]['url'] = $college->url;
$college_temp[$i]['description'] = $college->description;
$i++;
}
// var_dump($college_temp); // uncomment to check array contents