Question

This is my code

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT title,text,date FROM news limit 5");

is there any way to extract title,text,date from $result and put them into 3 dimensional array?

Answer 1

I think what you’re after is actually a two-dimensional array (in which the second dimension has three elements). (Correct me if I’m wrong.)

One of the comments under the documentation of mysql_fetch_array has an answer to this:

(Disclamer: This code is unnecessarily verbose. I prefer not changing it though as I have copied it from the above web-page. For improvements, I refer to the comments.)

<?php
function mysql_fetch_rowsarr($result, $numass=MYSQL_BOTH) {
  $i=0;
  $keys=array_keys(mysql_fetch_array($result, $numass));
  mysql_data_seek($result, 0);
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, $numass)) {
      foreach ($keys as $speckey) {
        $got[$i][$speckey]=$row[$speckey];
      }
    $i++;
    }
  return $got;
}
?>

You should then be able to use this function as

<?
mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT title,text,date FROM news limit 5");

$arr = mysql_fetch_rowsarr($result);
$row_2_title = $arr[2]['title'];
?>