Question

When I retrieve the results from a database query in PHP, I receive duplicated values, where ones is an integer, and one has the column name. array_unique(), in sorting the array, would in most cases end up with the numeric key before the string, meaning that would be the key kept. Right now, I use a function that removes from the array anything with a numeric key, but I don’t really care for this approach. Does anyone have a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Change the command you use to retrieve the values from the database (eg. mysql_fetch_assoc instead of mysql_fetch_array). No matter which api you use now, there is an alternative that does exactly what you want.

update:

In PDO you would write:

$nonumindexes = $res->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);