Get PHP associative array from MySQL

Question

Iam trying to place data from SQL into array and simultaneously make the same array associated with name of source columns. This is function, what I got:

GetRowFromDb("`id`,`name`,`email`", " WHERE `id`='1'", "database1", "table1");

function GetRowFromDb ($column, $condition, $database, $table) { 
  $target="`$database`.`$table`";
  $query="SELECT $column FROM $target $condition";
  $indexedrow=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($query));
  return $indexedrow; 
}

This gives me back indexed array. When I want to know email, I need to use index (number) for example $result[2]. But I want to make my array associative with name of source columns, like this

print $result[email] //should return email

Thanks for reply! Marcel

Answer 1

Use mysql_fetch_assoc instead of mysql_fetch_row.

GetRowFromDb("`id`,`name`,`email`", " WHERE `id`='1'", "database1", "table1");

function GetRowFromDb ($column, $condition, $database, $table) { 
  $target="`$database`.`$table`";
  $query="SELECT $column FROM $target $condition";
  $indexedrow=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query));
  return $indexedrow; 
}

Answer 2

you have to change this line

 $indexedrow=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query($query));

to

 $indexedrow=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query));

mysql_fetch_row returns array with numbers as keys and mysql_fetch_assoc returns the field names as keys.

Answer 3

The docs are helpful. You can use mysql_fetch_assoc