Chris --

...and then Chris Boget said...
% 
% > The original poster actually mentioned an associative array with one db
% > field as the index and another as the value.  None of these, just like
% > Ignatius's suggestion, will do the job.  
% 
% Actually, mysql_fetch_assoc() will do quite nicely.

Really?  How?  I must be quite confused.

Given a DB table that looks about like

  id    name
  01    david
  02    anna
  03    eunice
  04    bob
  05    celeste
  06    fred

then code like

  $result = mysql_query("select id,name from table") ;
  while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) )   // or 
mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC) for those who like mysql_fetch_array but for 
some reason care about the memory used by a single record
  {
   ...
  }

will yield $row like

  array
  (
    'id' => 01,
    'name' => 'david'
  )

or so every time.  How on earth is that going to get Devon his desired

  array
  (
    '01' => 'david' ,
    '02' => 'anna' ,
    ...
  )

as requested without some php work?


% 
% > I didn't think it worth shooting down someone who was being helpful, though, 
% > when I made my response.
% 
% It didn't seem like he was shooting you down.

No, but IMNSHO he shot a rather rude hole in Ignatius.


% 
% Chris


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