Yuri Yarlei wrote: > You can try use the foreach function. > > ex: > if ($res = mysql_query ($sql, $db)) { > /* I personally prefer "res" for "resource", not "results" */ > while ($r = mysql_fetch_assoc ($res)) { > $rows[] = $r; > } > } > > > foreach ($rows as $row){ > echo $row['first_name']; > echo "<br>"; > } > > the foreach function transform the array $rows[] (the fisrt level of associative array) in a variable $row. > > Thanks Yuri, I needed this explanation. Looks like it might be a simpler alternative to my while... I was thinking about it, but didn't quite grasp it... ashita wa "shining brain" ;-) > Yuri Yarlei. > Programmer PHP, CSS, Java, PostregreSQL; > Today PHP, tomorrow Java, after the world. > Kyou wa PHP, ashita wa Java, sono ato sekai desu. > > > > >> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> From: news.NOSPAM.0ixbtqKe@xxxxxxxx >> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:17:59 +0200 >> Subject: Re: how to extract fields from associative array into different variables >> >> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:50:45 -0400, PJ wrote: >> >> >>> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:38 -0400, PJ wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Then I have to add some loopy thing to assign the values to the >>>>> $variables... a real pita since my variable do not lend themselves too >>>>> well to linear alterations ($varIn, $var2IN, $var3IN... etc... so $i=0 >>>>> and $i++ arren't going to be too cooperative here... I guess I'd have to >>>>> change that to $var1IN... and then figure out how to do $var.$i.IN ... I >>>>> already tried, but don't seem to have it right >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Why do you need them in separate variables? Can't you use them using >>>> array syntax elsewhere in your code? >>>> >>> Basically, I don't know how else to handle inserting and updating random >>> ... >>> >> What he's talking about is doing this: >> >> if ($res = mysql_query ($sql, $db)) { >> /* I personally prefer "res" for "resource", not "results" */ >> while ($r = mysql_fetch_assoc ($res)) { >> $rows[] = $r; >> } >> } >> >> And then you access the individual rows/columns as >> $rows[0]['first_name'] >> $rows[0]['last_name'] >> $rows[1]['first_name'] >> $rows[1]['last_name'] >> and so on, in some kind of loop probably. >> >> (I thought this had been spelled out already, but I >> was unable to find it so perhaps not.) >> >> >> /Nisse >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Deixe suas conversas mais divertidas. Baixe agora mesmo novos emoticons. � gr�tis! > http://specials.br.msn.com/ilovemessenger/pacotes.aspx > -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php