Question

PLATFORM:

PHP, mySQL

WHAT I HAVE:

I have a Database table. Within my application, I am able to fetch all the rows. When I am querying the database, I have set the records fetch limit dynamically.

WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO:

I am trying to pull out all the rows of data until the record fetch limit is reached, in a loop. I want to assign these results to another array(in the loop) so that I can access these values via this new array, outside the loop. I need the PHP code to do so. I want to be able to apply the same logic of coding in Javascript. Will that be possible?

EXAMPLE:

//TABLE STRUCTURE
fname   lname    city
Ed       Al      SA
Bob     B       MN
Chris     V       KJ

PHP QUERY:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT fname, lname, city FROM table LIMIT 3");

while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) ) {    

        $new_rows_data['fname'] .= $row['fname'];
        $new_rows_data['lname'] .= $row['lname'];
        $new_rows_data['city']  .= $row['city'];
    }

DESIRED OUTPUT:

echo $new_rows_data['fname'][0].'   '.$new_rows_data['lname'][0].'   '.$new_rows_data['city'][0].
//Want the above to show: Ed        Al      SA
echo $new_rows_data['fname'][1].'   '.$new_rows_data['lname'][1].'   '.$new_rows_data['city'][1].
//Want the above to show: Bob       B       MN
echo $new_rows_data['fname'][2].'   '.$new_rows_data['lname'][2].'   '.$new_rows_data['city'][2].
//Want the above to show: Chris     V       KJ

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

If you change the PHP query bits to…

$new_rows_data['fname'][] = $row['fname'];
$new_rows_data['lname'][] = $row['lname'];
$new_rows_data['city'][]  = $row['city'];

…you should be good to go. (At the moment, you’re appending the contents into a single string each time.)

Incidentally, I presume this data is ‘known good’, as you don’t appear to be output escaping it at all. (Cross site scripting is bad, etc.)