Question

I try to retrieve a array from one table What is wrong with this code?

$_fbexclude = mysql_query("SELECT fbempfang FROM fbinvite WHERE fbreturn = '1' ");
$fbexcludearray= mysql_fetch_array($_fbexclude);

// Convert the array 
$excludes = implode(',', $fbexcludearray);

From echo $excludes; It only gives me just the following response: 1000033xxx161,1000033xxx161 Twice the same fbempfang

Answer 1

See if the following gives you what you want (FIXED):

$_fbexclude = mysql_query("SELECT fbempfang FROM fbinvite WHERE fbreturn = '1'");
$fbexcludearray = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($_fbexclude)) {
  $fbexcludearray[] = $row['fbempfang'];
}

// Convert the array 
$excludes = implode(',', $fbexcludearray);

mysql_fetch_array() and it’s siblings (_assoc, _row) only retrieve one row at a time. This means that your original code will only give you the first returned row – to work around this, we use the loop you see above.

The reason you see the same data twice is because mysql_fetch_array() returns a mixed indexed and associative array, which contains all the data twice over. For this reason, it is much better to use mysql_fetch_assoc() or mysql_fetch_row(), as you rarely need both formats.

In fact, it is much better to use mysqli, but the same information applies to that as well.