Question

One thing that has always bugged me is that when checking my PHP scripts for problems, I get the warning "bool-assign : Assignment in condition" and I get them a lot.

For example:

$guests = array(); $sql = "SELECT * FROM `guestlist`"; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))     $guests[] = $row['name']; 

Is there a different way to get multiple or all rows into an object or array? Or is there nothing wrong with this method?

Answer 1

Try doing this instead:

$guests = array(); $sql = "SELECT * FROM `guestlist`"; $result = mysql_query($sql); while(($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) !== false)     $guests[] = $row['name']; 

I believe PHP is warning because of the $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) not returning a Boolean.