Store Column Values in Array - php

Question

I'm trying to store the title(summary) and date(created) of an event in an array. But I think im missing something in my loop.
<?php
$summary = array();
$date = array();
mysql_connect('mysql.server', 'myUsername', 'myPass') or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("mxgsite") or die(mysql_error());
$query_summary = mysql_query('SELECT summary FROM event_info') or die(mysql_error());
$query_date = mysql_query('SELECT created FROM event_details') or die(mysql_error());
$row_summary = mysql_fetch_array($query_summary);
$row_date = mysql_fetch_array($query_date);
$i = 0;
while(($row1 = mysql_fetch_array($query_summary))) {
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($query_date);
$summary[] = $row['summary'];
$date[] = $row['created'];
echo $summary[$i] . " " . $date[$i] . "<br ?>";
$i++;
}
I know i'm getting values because I can echo out 1 value, but if I want to put all the values in an array and try to echo out that array I keep getting blank values?

Answer 1

It seems to me like you are trying to do too many things here. Since the 2 sets of values are not being stored in a way where they are related/linked to each other, you might as well deal with them in separate while loops. Try something like this:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query_summary)){
$summary[] = $row[0];
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query_date)){
$date[] = $row[0];
}
If you want to relate the tables, per the comments above, you can try something more like:
$result = mysql_query('SELECT a.eventid, a.summary, b.created
FROM event_info a
join event_details b
on a.eventid = b.eventid');
$events = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$event = array();
foreach ($row as $key=>$value){
$event[$key]=$value;
}
$events[] = $event;
}