Re: question

On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 09:03 AM, Robert Weeks wrote:

Hi, I'm a little stumped here, maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet....... Anyway, I have a lot of SQL queries that return one row if there is a match and instead of having to write out something like this: $firstname = $row["firstname"]; $lastname = $row["lastname"]; $midinitial = $row["midinitial"]; $preferredname = $row["preferredname"]; $address1 = $row["address1"]; $address2 = $row["address2"]; $city = $row["city"]; $state = $row["state"]; $zip = $row["zip"]; I thought I'd loop through the result and and get the info out like this: $nrows = mysql_num_rows($result); $nfields = mysql_num_fields($result); $rowarray = mysql_fetch_row($result); for ($i=0; $i<$nfields; $i++){ $fname = mysql_fieldname($result,$i); $val = $rowarray[$i]; $fname = $val;

Do you want $$fname = $val here? Taking the string in $fname as the name of a variable to which you are assigning $val.

} and then later in the page reference the values using <?=$address1?> Problem is this isn't working. If I echo the varibles to the page they will print out but they wont show up in the <?=$address1?> tags. I tried setting the varibles to global and that still doesn't seem to work. I know I'm missing something really simple and basic here. If someone could give me a push in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Robert -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net