Question

I know there is mysql_fetch_assoc which puts all data from a row into an array. Is there something equivalent for putting all data in a column into an array? e.g. a list of title ID’s?

Answer 1

GROUP_CONCAT and explode() is probably what you’re looking for as it can get everything in one row. You can group all of the values with a comma using GROUP_CONCAT and then populate the array using explode().

Your SQL would contain this:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(column_name SEPARATOR ',') AS col

And your PHP would create the array like this (after performing the query):

$col_array = explode(',' $row['col']);