Question

I have a database with some tables and columns.
I want to create a multidimensional array in PHP to store these values.

$tableData = array(array()); // I try to set up the multidimensional array.

/* 1: Get Table Names (works fine) */
    $result = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES FROM myDatabase");
    $i=0;
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) 
    {                   
        // Push the table name into the PHP array
        array_push($tableData, $row[0]);
    }


/* 2: Columns */
    for ($i = 1; $i < count($tableNames); $i++)
    {
        $result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM $tableData[$i]");          
        while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) 
        {
            array_push($tableData[$i], $row); // ** ERROR THROWN: first argument must be an array ** //
        }
    }

How can I do this? I feel like this should be simple, but I’ve spent the last 4 hours banging my head on my keyboard and google trying to figure it out… plenty of tutorial on putting a multidimensional array into a SQL, but not much for the other way around!

Thanks!

Answer 1

you don’t need to array(array()) to set up a multidimensional array. just push other array as a value.

try this:

foreach ($tableNames as $tableName) 
{
    $result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM $tableName");
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
    {
        $tableData[$tableName] = $row;
    }
}