I have a sequence of mysql query result resources stored in a array.
E.G array([0] => resource [1] => resource ...ect);
This code retrieves the first resource in the array:
$third_count = "0";
while ($user_result = mysql_fetch_array($user[$third_count])) {
print_r($user_result);
}
$third_count = $third_count +1;
I'm just stuck trying to find an if statement that'll loop though the array.
Something like: while ($third_count =< $second_count) is what I need, but it doesn't seem to work.
Where $second count is the number of elements in the array.
Thanks for pointers!
What you want to do is use a foreach loop to loop through that array of result resources. Counts will not matter then.
foreach($resourcearr as $res) {
while ($user_result = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
print_r($user_result);
}
}
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I have this
$homedata = $user->getbanks();
foreach ($homedata as $data)
echo json_encode(array("replies" => array(array("message" => $data->bankname))));
I have this put the result am getting is only one array from the list. I want to get all.
If I understand your requirement correctly, you need the banknames in an array replies within a key message. For that the below code will do the job. But you can optimize the query for better performance.
$homedata = $user->getbanks();
$banks['replies'] = [];
foreach ($homedata as $data) {
$banks['replies'][]['message'] = $data->bankname;
}
print_r(json_encode($banks)); exit;
Further, you were only getting the first content because you are overriding the previous content when you iterate using foreach.
I am trying to run a function that gets information from a DB and returns an array of the values, so I can then extract it on the page.
Inside the function, after my query I have the following code:
$example_array = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query) {
$example_array[] = $row;
}
return $example_array;
And there ends my function. Outside of it, I have this:
extract($example_array);
And I would assume I could then directly echo any of the variables that were previously in $example_array, e.g. <?= $example_var ?> but they do not contain any data.
Running print_r($example_array); gives an array that looks like this:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [example_var] => Example String ) )
The start of that code makes me think my array is somehow "lost" inside another array's first ([0]) value, and as such is not extracting correctly.
Have I gone about adding data to that initial $example_array incorrectly?
When you do $example_array[] = $row;, you assign the current row to a new index of $example_array. If you want to access it like $example_array['row_name'], you'd have to assign it like this:
$example_array = $row;
But when you do this, $example_array will be overwritten until it has reached the last row (which means that $example_array will always contain the last row from the query). If you just want the first row, you can do this and skip the whole while loop:
$example_array = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
Maybe :
$example_array = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query) {
array_push($example_array, $row['exemple_var']);
}
return $example_array;
The issue is that mysql_fetch_array would have meant $row['row_name'] was valid.
As you added $row to the array $example_array, you now need to access it via it's array id too, such as;
$example_array[0]['row_name'], $example_array[1]['row_name'] etc.
What exactly are you trying to achieve? May be easier to offer assistance if we know.
If you have any array $p that you populated in a loop like so:
$p[] = array( "id"=>$id, "Name"=>$name);
What's the fastest way to search for John in the Name key, and if found, return the $p index? Is there a way other than looping through $p?
I have up to 5000 names to find in $p, and $p can also potentially contain 5000 rows. Currently I loop through $p looking for each name, and if found, parse it (and add it to another array), splice the row out of $p, and break 1, ready to start searching for the next of the 5000 names.
I was wondering if there if a faster way to get the index rather than looping through $p eg an isset type way?
Thanks for taking a look guys.
Okay so as I see this problem, you have unique ids, but the names may not be unique.
You could initialize the array as:
array($id=>$name);
And your searches can be like:
array_search($name,$arr);
This will work very well as native method of finding a needle in a haystack will have a better implementation than your own implementation.
e.g.
$id = 2;
$name= 'Sunny';
$arr = array($id=>$name);
echo array_search($name,$arr);
Echoes 2
The major advantage in this method would be code readability.
If you know that you are going to need to perform many of these types of search within the same request then you can create an index array from them. This will loop through the array once per index you need to create.
$piName = array();
foreach ($p as $k=>$v)
{
$piName[$v['Name']] = $k;
}
If you only need to perform one or two searches per page then consider moving the array into an external database, and creating the index there.
$index = 0;
$search_for = 'John';
$result = array_reduce($p, function($r, $v) use (&$index, $search_for) {
if($v['Name'] == $search_for) {
$r[] = $index;
}
++$index;
return $r;
});
$result will contain all the indices of elements in $p where the element with key Name had the value John. (This of course only works for an array that is indexed numerically beginning with 0 and has no “holes” in the index.)
Edit: Possibly even easier to just use array_filter, but that will not return the indices only, but all array element where Name equals John – but indices will be preserved:
$result2 = array_filter($p, function($elem) {
return $elem["Name"] == "John" ? true : false;
});
var_dump($result2);
What suits your needs better, resp. which one is maybe faster, is for you to figure out.
I've done a fair bit of googling and couldn't find anything that works, I'm just getting nothing back, this is probably something simple but there's a lot of variations that don't seem to match what I'm doing.
To give you an overall idea what I'm at, I'm accessing an API and getting back info as an object. There are comments and attachments, these are in separate arrays.
What i want to do is display the comments and attachments all together in the order of the date and time not separately.
I figured the best way is to create a loop through the comments array, then create a loop through the attachment array, then join both and sort by the date (epoch) and then loop through the whole merged loop echoing what i want. That should provide some context, right now i just want to create the multidimensional array for comments and i can figure out the rest.
$comments_holder = array();
//total number of comments in the array
$comment_total = $issue_json->fields->comment->total -1;
$i=1;
while ($i <= $comment_total)
{
//this is the date,time and timezone info for each comment
$raw_date = $issue_json->fields->comment->comments[$i]->updated;
$comments_holder[$i] = array();
//convert_sql_time just converts from 2012-11-04T16:33:00.936+600 into epoch time so i can sort the results later based on date
$comments_holder[$i]['comments_date'] = convert_sql_time($raw_date);
$comments_holder[$i]['comments_displayName'] = $issue_json->fields->comment->comments[$i]->author->displayName;
$comments_holder[$i]['comments_body'] = $issue_json->fields->comment->comments[$i]->body;
}
if everything is okay with data, this code will be enough for building such array:
$comments = $issue_json->fields->comment->comments;
$result = array();
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
$result[] = array(
'comments_date' => convert_sql_time($comment->updated),
'comments_displayName' => $comment->author->displayName,
'comments_body' => $comment->body,
);
}
print_r($result);
if comment->comments is an array, there is no need to keep it's count separately;
foreach is enough for iterating through the array and there is no need to keep separate variable for calculating array index;
[] notation will automatically increase array index and assigning array directly will do the trick(i.e. will result to multi dim array)
foreach ($topicarray as $key=>$value){
$files = mysql_query("mysqlquery");
while($file = mysql_fetch_array($files)){ extract($file);
$topicarray[$value] = array( array($id=>$title)
);
}
}
The first foreach loop is providing me with an array of unique values which forms a 1-dimensional array.
The while loop is intended to store another array of values inside the 1-dimensional array.
When the while loop returns to the beginning, it is overwriting it. So I only ever get the last returned set of values in the array.
My array ends up being a two dimensional array with only one value in each of the inner arrays.
Feels like I'm missing something very basic here - like a function or syntax which prevents the array from overwriting itself but instead, adds to the array.
Any ideas?
Step 1. Replace $topicarray[$value] with $topicarray[$value][]
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit
Make $topicarray[$value] an array of rows, instead of one row. Also, don't use extract here.
foreach ($topicarray as $key => $value) {
$rows = array();
$files = mysql_query("mysqlquery");
while($file = mysql_fetch_array($files)) {
$rows[] = array($file['id'] => $file['title']);
}
$topicarray[$value] = $rows;
}
Also, you should switch to PDO or MySQLi.