Dave M G wrote:
PHP List,
I've got a series of associative arrays that contain simple string
values that I want to insert into my database.
In each array, the names of the keys correspond to the column names
in the database table. The values stored in the array are, of course,
the values that I want to insert into the columns.
So, I want to set up a function where I can pass the array as an
argument, and it will construct the MySQL statement using the keys for
column names, and array values for insert values.
Within the function, the query looks like this:
$query = "INSERT INTO table (" . $columns . ") VALUES = (" . $values
. ")";
Assuming that the array argument passed to the function is called
$array, converting the array values to the insert values is pretty easy:
$values = implode(", ", $array);
But in the case of using the array keys for column names, it's not so
easy:
$columns = implode(", " array->keys($array));
I know that code above doesn't work, because, as described in the
manual, array keys returns a list of the numerical indexes along with
the string indexes.
Actually, it doesn't matter what the indexes are when you use implode.
Implode just puts the values into a string. Here's code that will work.
$field_array = array_keys($fields_form);
$fields = implode(",",$field_array);
$values = implode('","',$fields_form);
$query = "INSERT INTO Table1 ($fields) VALUES (\"$values\")";
$result = mysqli_query($cxn,$query);
$fields_form is an associative array of all the fields to be entered
into the database, with the field names as keys and the field values as
values. This code quotes the values in the $values string in the query,
as needed if the values are strings.
Janet
Something like this:
Array
(
[0] => column1
[1] => column2
[2] => column3
)
At least, that's what it looks like if it's just echoed out.
Is there a way I can strip out the relevant column names to be more
like this:
"column1, column2. column3"
Thank you for any advice.
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Dave M G
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