Question

My goal here is to set a variable to a field name from a mysql query. Some pseudo code below

1.    $query = "SELECT firstName, lastName FROM users WHERE userName = 'mhopkins321';"
2.    $result = mysql_query($result);
3.    $while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
4.         $column1 = name_of_column($row['firstName']);
5.    }
6.    echo $column1

      //Would return the string

      firstName

obviously line 4 being the real pseudo part

Answer 1

Is this what you’re after?

$query = "SELECT firstName, lastName FROM users WHERE userName = 'mhopkins321';"
$result = mysql_query($result);

$all_results = array();
$while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
     $formatted_row = array();
     foreach ( $row as $column => $value ) {
         $formatted_row[] = array($column, $value);
     }
     $all_results[] = $formatted_row;
}

Or just use $column and $value how you like inside the foreach loop.

Or do you want specifically the first column, which can be accessed with reset($row); $first_key = key($row);?