Question

What is the problem with my mysql array extraction below:

        $mysql_array = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE uid1='$uid1'"); 
        $array = array();
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($mysql_array)){
            $array[] = $row;
        }

        $array = array_unique($array);
        $array = array_reverse($array);
        $emails = array();
        $numbers = array();

        foreach($array as $row){
            $uid2 = $row['uid2'];
            $number = number($uid2);
            if(strlen($number) > 9){
                $numbers[] = array('uid2' => $uid2, 'number' => $number);
            }
            else{
                $email = email($uid2);
                $emails[] = array('uid2' => $uid2, 'email' => $email);
            }
        }
        $numbers = array_unique($numbers);
        $emails = array_unique($emails);            
        var_dump($numbers);
        var_dump($emails);

There must be something I need to do to convert the “Resource” from mysql into an array.
There must be a problem with the above code.
This is what I am getting on the var_dumps: array(0) { }
and array(1) { [0]=> array(2) { ["uid2"]=> NULL ["email"]=> NULL } }

Answer 1

I think this is what you’re trying to do:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM table1 WHERE uid1 = '{$uid1}' ORDER BY /* insert column name here, followed by ASC or DESC */");
$table = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
    $table[] = $row;

// at this point, each entry in the $table array is one row from 'table1'.
// shouldn't need to do array_unique or array_reverse with the modified SQL query above.

$numbers = $emails = array();
foreach ($table as $row)
{
    $number = number($row["uid2"]);
    if (strlen($number) > 9 && !in_array($numbers[$row["uid2"]], $number, true))
        $numbers[$row["uid2"]][] = $number;
    else
    {
        $email = email($row["uid2"]);
        if (!in_array($emails[$row["uid2"]], $email, true))
            $emails[$row["uid2"]][] = $email;
    }
}

// shouldn't need to do array_unique with the if-statements above

var_dump($numbers);
var_dump($emails);

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EDIT Answering question from comments:

Based on the logic you are using, the result will probably be the same. My example above will allow this scenario for $numbers, while your example will not:

array(2)
{
    [123] => array(2)
    {
        [0] => 1234567890,    // same as $numbers[456][0]
        [1] => 9876543210
    },
    [456] => array(1)
    {
        [0] => 1234567890    // same as $numbers[123][0]
    }
}

But based on the way that $number is generated based on $uid2, you probably won’t see any difference. What I mean is that, if number(123) returns 1234567890, then number(456) probably will not return 1234567890, so you probably wouldn’t ever run into a scenario where you would see a difference.

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EDIT 2 After thinking about this some more, I’m betting that your code can be greatly simplified to this:

// only selecting uid2 from the table
$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT uid2 FROM table1 WHERE uid1 = '{$uid1}' ORDER BY /* insert column name here, followed by ASC or DESC */");

$output = array();
while (list($uid2) = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
    $number = number($uid2);
    if (strlen($number) > 9)
        $output[$uid2]["number"] = $number;
    else
        $output[$uid2]["email"] = email($uid2);
}

var_dump($output);

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LAST EDIT (Hopefully):

// only selecting uid2 from the table
$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT uid2 FROM table1 WHERE uid1 = '{$uid1}' ORDER BY /* insert column name here, followed by ASC or DESC */");

$numbers = $emails = array();
while (list($uid2) = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
    $number = number($uid2);
    if (strlen($number) > 9)
        $numbers[$uid2] = $number;
    else
        $emails[$uid2] = email($uid2);
}

var_dump($numbers);
var_dump($emails);