Question

I recently added a new column to a MySQL database (featured), then added that column into my associative array. Rather than calling the data for the new column, I simply get ‘null’ in place of each entry, even after specifically requesting the column to be ‘not null’.

I thought I may have been calling the data incorrectly, however, my array seems fine:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
    array_push($blogs, array('title' => $row['title'], 'content' => $row['content'], 'featured' => $row['featured']));
}

And this is the response I get:

{"blogs":[{"title":"test-title","content":"test-content","featured":null}]}

I’m guessing this must be a MySQL issue, but I’ve no idea what it could be.

Answer 1

My guess is that the SQL query executed doesn’t select this new column, or uses another name as the one you’re expecting:

select title, content from ...

or

select title, content, feature as f from ...