Question

I am trying to make a function which converts a mysql query result in to an array

In the function below i’m assuming to have fields isbn, title and rank but this will not always be the case.

Is there a way to retrieve a fields name along with the value without actually knowing any of this information prior? so that this function can be used with any mysql query result.

function

function mysqlToArray($result){

   $arr = array();
   $numRows = mysql_num_rows($result);//count
   if($numRows>0){
      for($i=0; $i<$numRows; $i++){
         $arr[] = array(
            "isbn"      => mysql_result($result, $i, "isbn"),
            "title"     => mysql_result($result, $i, "title"),
            "rank"      => mysql_result($result, $i, "rank"),                   
         );
      }
   }        

   return $arr;
}

example in use

function getProfitableBooks(){
    $q = "SELECT isbn, title, rank FROM ".TBL_BOOKS;

    $result = mysql_query($q, $this->connection);
    if(!$result || (mysql_numrows($result) < 1)){  
        return null;
    }
    return $this->mysqlToArray($result);
}

Answer 1

There is a great PHP function for this mysql_fetch_array

You can view examples mysql_fetch_array in the PHP manual.