Hi this is similar to what Dollah Ihsan had suggested , however I ave tweeked the getPopulationById function a bit. /** * assume your table structure just like this. * table: users * | id | country | name | population | * ------------------------------------------------------------------ * | 1 | Texas | Fort Worth | 400000 | * */ function getPopulationById($id) { // echo 'SELECT country, name, population FROM users WHERE id = ' . $id;die; $result = mysql_query('SELECT country, name, population FROM users WHERE id = ' . $id); While($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) $pop[$id][$row['country']][$row['name']] = $row['population']; return $pop; } Chetan Dattaram Rane | Software Engineer | Persistent Systems chetan_rane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Cell: +91 94033 66714 | Tel: +91 (0832) 30 79014 Innovation in software product design, development and delivery- www.persistentsys.com -----Original Message----- From: Dollah Ihsan [mailto:dollah.ihsan@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:04 PM To: Anton Heuschen Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Assign 2 values from Mysql to an array I'm sorry if this is not what you're talking about... /** * assume your table structure just like this. * table: users * | id | country | name | population | * ------------------------------------------------------------------ * | 1 | Texas | Fort Worth | 400000 | * */ function getPopulationById($id) { // echo 'SELECT country, name, population FROM users WHERE id = ' . $id;die; $result = mysql_query('SELECT country, name, population FROM users WHERE id = ' . $id); if(mysql_num_rows($result) != 1) return false; $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $pop[$id][$row['country']][$row['name']] = $row['population']; return $pop; } $array = getPopulationById(1); print_r($array); // print_r($array) should be like this: // Array ( [1] => Array ( [Texas] => Array ( [Fort Worth] => 400000 ) ) ) On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Anton Heuschen <antonfh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This might sound trivial, but for the live of me cant seem to get it to > work, and I am not familiar with such a thing. > > What I have is a query lets say : > > select country,name,population from USERS where id= 'some_id' "; > > > Now I want to assign the result to one set (The above example might have 3+ > entries per telephone, thus what would be nice is something like an array of > : > > > [id][country][name] = population .......... or to be exact if I echo the > value for each id and country and name to get the population value > > > Like : > > Array { > > [id] array { > [country] array { > [0] = USA > } > [name] array { > [0] = test > > } > > } > > > > > I dont know something like that, maybe Im over comlicating the question now > even, the main thing is wondered was in the first place was with a standard > query and variable assign, from the query like: > > select country,name,population from USERS where id= 'some_id' "; > > normally you would just assign each field to one variable. like > > $country = result["country"] > $name = result["name"] > > > But now I want all 3 fields as one variable (which would be an array) ..but > how ? > > I hope I have not totally confused the question now. > > Thanks in advance -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php