Question

I’m producing a string with GROUP_CONCAT in MySQL.

There are 2 columns I need to select for each row being id and name, how should I format the string in the query so I can produce an array that couples the ids and names in PHP at optimal speed?

For example (my attempt):
GROUP_CONCAT producing

{"id":1,"name":"python"},{"id":2,"name":"ruby"}

Then convert this to an array in PHP.

Answer 1

I dont know why you are attempting this. But this query should work

SELECT * FROM `yourtable` GROUP_CONCAT(
    CONCAT('{"id":"',id,'","name":"',name,'"}') 
    separator ',')