Re: Question about PHP Arrays syntax

On Monday 22 April 2002 12:54, Vania Smrkovski wrote: > Hello, folks, and I apologize in advance if I break any rules here. This > is my first post on this list and I couldn't find any archive to review > existing posts for the answer to this question. http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php > a) How would you change the following the automatically find the tables and > run through the iteration. Using mysql running the query: SHOW tables; Would return the names of the tables in the currently selected database. > I'm new at PHP, and I learn by doing, so > forgive me for not doing the RTFM thing, but I just haven't found the > answer yet. Does that mean you haven't RTFM so you haven't found the answer yet? > So instead I created a table called tableNames with one field, > which I personally populated with the names of all tables. > > How should I have done it so that wouldn't be necessary. See above. > b) When I grab the values of the table names using my prepared table > tableNames, I couldn't figure out how to get the TEXT value of that record. > When I put in a debug statement, all I got was a value of "Array", rather > than a name of a table. It helps to RTFM. In any case the name of the function mysql_fetch_array() kind of gives the game away :) > You'll see below that I hacked a work-around by > using a "foreach()" statement, which works flawlessly. That is common practice when dealing with arrays. > How can I grab a specific field of an array without using a foreach()? > while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) If you know the names of the fields, then you can access them directly by: $value_of_field = $line['name_of_field']; If you had used: while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) Then you would have to reference the fields using: $value_of_field_0 = $line[0]; Remember the manual is your friend. If you haven't already done so, download a copy (it's available in various formats) and make use of it! -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. -- J. R. R. Tolkien */