Question

I am populating an array from a MySQL Database, the problem is I get 9 blank fields in my dropdown box that I am trying to populate it with. What did I do wrong?

php code:

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results))
{
    $options[] = array(
                        Name => $row['Name'], 
                        Value => $row['Value'], 
                        ID => $row['CID']
                      );
}

dropdown box:

for ($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++)
{
    print '<option id="'.$options[$i]["ID"].'" value="'.$options[$i]["Value"].'">'
          .$options[$i]["Name"].
          '</option>'."\n";
}

Answer 1

Your quotes are backwards in your array

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results))
{
    $options[] = array("Name" => $row['Name'], "Value" => $row['Value'], "ID" => $row['CID']);
}

Also, using an associative array in double quotes requires you to do this:

echo "I want to print out this: {$arr['index']}";

If you don’t do it this way, it (should) result in a parse error.

You might notice that this also works

echo $arr[index]

But this is not good practice because if there is a constant through a define() named index, all of your statements will use your constant’s definition instead of the string you intended.