Question

I have a simple mySQL database table that I am loading into a PHP array. I would like the id column of the mySQL table (which is auto incremented, but I don’t think that’s relevant) to be the array key for each element of the PHP array, instead of the array being numeric.

Instead of this:

Array(
  Array(id=>'1', field1=>someval, field2=>val),
  Array(id=>'2', field1=>val, field2=>otherval),
  Array(id=>'4', field1=>val, field2=>otherval)
)

I want this:

Array(
  1=>Array(field1=>someval, field2=>val),
  2=>Array(field1=>val, field2=>otherval),
  4=>Array(field1=>val, field2=>otherval)
)

I don’t care if id is left in the associative array for each row.

Is there a way to do this without looping through the original mySQL array and using up lots of processing time?

Answer 1

“Is there a way to do this without looping through the original mySQL array and using up lots of processing time?”

I believe the answer to this is no. The best you can do is to try to be as efficient as possible when looping through the array.