Question

hello members a anomaly in codeigniter im noticing

in my model im querying the database to get a list of user_id ONLY

$recs = $this->db->query('select id from users');

that was easy, but i want to return the result as an array

so i do

$reccs->result_array();

but now in my controller i want to check for in_array(124,$returned_array);
this is not successful because codeigniter has encapsulated the array of id into a v big outer array something like this

Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 0 ) [1] => Array ( [id] => 11 )           [2]  =>   Array ( [id] => 29 )) 

how can i use the in_array php function to check only id ?

OR

how can i built a plain array just to store id something like

 $demo = array();
 foreach($recs as $r)
 $demo = array($r->id);

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

You can loop the result set and generate a ne w array and make use of it. Below is the code which may be usefull

$i=0;
foreach($reccs->result_array() as $values)
{
$new_array[]=$values[$i]['id'];
$i++;
}

make use of $new_array for in_array comparision