Did you bother to initialize $table as an array() or are you another
lazy slob of a programmer that expects the engine to read your mind
(cluttered as that may be)?
Cheers,
Rob.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 18:33, Fletcher Mattox wrote:
> How does one represent a MySQL table as a two dimensional array
> using the column names as one of the indices? My naive attempt
> went something like this:
>
> while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
> $table[] = $row;
>
> but that generated this error;
>
> Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings
>
> Ok. So then I try to explicitly assign each row, like this:
>
> while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
> $table[$i++] = $row;
>
> While that generates no error, $table contains nothing useful when
> I'm done. So then I try to assign each row and column, like this:
>
> while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
> foreach ( $row as $col => $val)
> $table[$i][$col] = $val;
> $i++;
> }
>
> And that got me this error:
>
> Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array
>
> So clearly my understanding of PHP arrays is lacking.
> Please help.
>
> Thanks
> Fletcher
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