I'm a bit stuck on this one. In my PHP code, I query for some records which are returned. I loop through the rows, but for each row I want to retrieve a column value using its name as an index.
while ($row=mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
echo $row[7];
}
This prints out what I want, but I wanted to do something like:
echo $row["description"];
Where description is the name of the column whose value I want to print? Can this be done?
Thank you very much.
You could also use this:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
Then you can switch back to numeric with MYSQL_NUM or both with MYSQL_BOTH
You need to use mysql_fetch_assoc to get the associative array.
You want to use the mysql_fetch_assoc function instead.
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When I use mysqli_fetch_array() I get an array, but how do I read the values? Is a While-Loop the only option, or can I pick any value from a row and column like a multidimensional array with index like row[0] column [3] ?
while loop fetches you a row per iteration.
You can get all rows as multidimensional array with mysqli_fetch_all
After that you can use pick your values with [rowNum][colNum]
But beware when your result has lot of rows - array can be very big and cause memory or other issues.
Update to clarify:
if you want to receive multidimensional array of rows there are two ways:
First: iterate over mysqli_result with fetch_assoc/fetch_array and append row to array:
$rows = array();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($res)) {
$rows[] = $row;
}
echo $rows[0]['whatever'];
Second: receive all results with one function call:
$rows = mysqli_fetch_all($res, MYSQLI_ASSOC);
echo $rows[0]['whatever'];
That's all. No more methods are available.
It depends how you are returning your results from the database.
there are flags in your mysqli_fetch_array function which you can set to modify your returned result.
If you use $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_ASSOC); or in OOP $row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC);
then you can access your returned result as column name in your while loop like $row['name'] or $row['age']
Or if you use $row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQLI_NUM); or in OOP $row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_NUM);
then you can access your returned result in while loop like $row[0] or $row[3]
Simple example would be
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $row['name'] . " " . $row['age'];
}
For further information. Read PHP.net Fetch Array
Your question suggests that your goal is just to get a single value. If that is the case, you should limit your query to only return what you're looking for rather than getting everything and then finding what you want in the results with PHP.
For the column, specify the one column you want instead of using *, (SELECT one_column FROM your_table) and for the row, either use a WHERE clause to select a specific id (provided that is defined on your table) or use a LIMIT clause to select a specific row number from the result set. Then you won't have to fetch in a loop or fetch all. Your query result (if it's successful) will just have one row with one column, and you can fetch once and get your value.
Granted, if you're going to need to do this repeatedly (i.e. in a loop), it isn't the best approach.
So I am trying what I feel is a simply loop through a record result. My query returns one row of data. I am attempting to simply pull the value of each row from the returning record into a variable called $questions. However, my var $questions when printed out has duplicates in every space. It should read something like Bob|Ted|Joe|Sally and instead it is reading Bob|Bob|Ted|Ted|Joe|Joe|Sally|Sally. Why is the code below running twice in the foreach loop?
while ($row = mssql_fetch_array($result)){
foreach ($row as $col => $value) {
$questions.=$value."|";
}
}
echo "Questions: ".$questions."<br/>";
Here is all you need to do:
$questions = "";
while ($row = mssql_fetch_array($result)){
$questions .= $row['fieldName']."|";
}
echo "Questions: ".$questions."<br/>";
The foreach() in addition to the while() is unnecessary.
The mssql_fetch_array according to PHP doc:
In addition to storing the data in the numeric indices of the result
array, it also stores the data in associative indices, using the field
names as keys.
The result includes a normal array [0...n] with one element for each column, but also an associative array where each value is represented by a key named after the column name.
So if your first column is Id, you could get id from a row in two ways:
$id = $row[0];
# or you could do this
$id = $row['Id'];
This is why you get each value twice when looping through row.
i hope to iterate the elements fetched from datebase
But the result looks very unexpected .
I found the code below print the $value and echo "<td id=".$key.$tag.">".$value."</td>";twice. Is there anything i misunderstood?
function selectTable($table){
$sql= "SELECT * FROM ".$table ;
$result=mysql_query($sql)
or die(mysql_error());
return $result;
}
$table = 'battery_con';
$result = selectTable($table);
unset($table);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
......
foreach ($row as $key => $value) {
print $value;
echo "<td id=".$key.$tag.">".$value."</td>";
}
.....
}
You are using mysql_fetch_array which by default returns an array with two elements per column (this is what the second (optional) paramter means: result_type = MYSQL_BOTH).
One is indexed with an integer representing the column index, one is indexed with the column name.
That's why you get two entries in your list. You would set the second parameter to MYSQL_ASSOC to get just one value per column.
Please use mysql_fetch_assoc() place of mysql_fetch_array()
I hope it will help
In addition to #Andreas's answer by default mysql_fetch_array gives both associative and numeric indexes, if you don't want this you can limit it with the second parameter in your while loop:
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM); // numeric keys only
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); // associative keys only
As previously mentioned by #sonusindhu you can also use mysql_fetch_row to only get numeric keys, or mysql_fetch_assoc to only get associative keys.
Update
The mysql_xxx() functions being deprecated you should consider using the mysqli_xxx() functions instead.
See the example 1 of the php manual for more details:
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.fetch-array.php
I have this code.
<?php
require('connection/conn.php');
mysql_select_db($db_name,$ligação);
//$rsArticle = mysql_query("CALL get_article(1,518)");
$rsArticle = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblarticles WHERE ArticleID = 518");
while($rowArticle = mysql_fetch_array($rsArticle)){
echo $rowArticle;
}
?>
And instead of getting the text that exists in the database I just get the word: Array
The line that is commented its for calling a stored procedure. In a desperate measure I made a simple select, in the next line
Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks
The reason that you are getting the word Array is because what you are echoing is an Array. Use something like echo $rowArticle['column-name']; to echo the data from a specific column of your query.
You can't echo an array. try print_r() instead
if you want the values individually, do something like this:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rsArticle, MYSQL_NUM)) {
//echo the first column of the record (index 0)
echo $row[0];
}
look in the php.net documentation for more info
mysql_fetch_array returns an array with elements for every field in your database table.
Either print the whole array with print_r() or use echo $rowArticle[COLOUMN_NAME] to echo certain values from your resultset.
mysql_fetch_array() returns you the array, when you use echo is actually return the object type in case of array.
use print_r($rowArticle); instead of echo.
I'm having trouble imploding a MySQL database array, below is a sample of the code I am using:
mysql_select_db($database_wlast, $wlast);
$query_category = "SELECT product_name FROM raw_materials WHERE category = '$_POST[category]'";
$category = mysql_query($query_category, $wlast) or die(mysql_error());
$row_category = mysql_fetch_array($category);
$result= implode(',',$row_category);
echo $result;
The result is the following:
Amber glass bottle 100ml, Amber glass bottle 100ml
i.e: it is spitting out the first value in the array twice and nothing else.
Please help!
while($row_category = mysql_fetch_array($category)){
$result[] = implode(',',$row_category);
}
echo implode("\n",$result);
That's how mysql_fetch_array() returns the result, twice: a numeric key and a string key. You possibly want mysql_fetch_assoc().
You want to implode all your product name from your database? if yes, than your code above is wrong.
mysql_fetch_array($category) only return 1 row of your database. If you want to implode of your all product name than code should like this:
$result="";
while($row_category=mysql_fetch_array($category))
$result=$result.",".$row[0];
or you some thing like this. You hold all your product name on array and implode it. Like this:
while($row_category=mysql_fetch_array($category))
$result[]=$row[0];
$newResult=implode(",",$result);
use mysql_fetch_array($category, MYSQL_NUM) or mysql_fetch_row($category) or mysql_fetch_assoc($category)
The problem is that by default mysql_fetch_array returns enumerated and associative arrays combined.