Question

every time i run mysql_fetch_array an array is returned with duplicate values e.g.

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [row_id] => 1
    [1] => some text
    [first_field] => some text
    [2] => some text
    [second_field] => some text 
}

but I only want single results in the array, I have tried using

mysql_fetch_array($data, MYSQL_ASSOC);

But this makes no difference.

Answer 1

This is the intended functionality of mysql_fetch_array(). If you want to not have the “duplicates” and just have the associative-array, use mysql_fetch_assoc() instead.

Example:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data)) { ... }