Question

I’ve made the following sql query

$dates = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT `saledate` FROM `phoneappdetail`");

Now I want to echo results in the array like so.

$dates[0]

I don’t want to use a while statement so I can use $date[1], $date[2], ect. in different places on the page.

Answer 1

You still have to use a while loop in order to traverse the result because mysql_query returns a resource and not an array.

function getResultArray() {
    $result_array =  array();
    $result_set = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT `saledate` FROM `phoneappdetail`");

    while ( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result_set) ) {
        $result_array[] = $row;
    }

    return $result_array;
}

$date = getResultArray();
echo $date[0]['saledate'];