Question

I know there must an easy and efficient way to do this.

I have an array like this:

       $fields = array( "EVENT_ID" => "Event Id" ,
            "EVENT_NAME"           => "Name",
            "EVENT_CLASSIFICATION" => "Classification",
            "DESCRIPTION"          => "Description",
            "START_TIME"           => "Start Time",
            "END_TIME"             => "End Time"
           );

I would like to convert this as this query:

              Select 
                   "EVENT_ID" as "Event ID",
                   "EVENT_NAME" as "Name", 
                   ...
              from
                   ...

Don’t want to put this in Loop. PHP has a lot array handling functions and this must be easy. I am new to php.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can simply build your query’s string by looping through your values.

$query = '';
foreach($fields as $k => $v)
    $query .= '"' . $k . '" as "' . $v . '",';
echo $query;

Note that this will leave a trailing comma. If you want to remove it, you can use

$query = rtrim($query, ',');

Live example