I would suggest you print out the array to get a better understanding of the structure first. Print_r('<PRE>'); Print_r($array); Print_r('<PRE>'); You can foreach over the $array['row'] Foreach($array['row'] as $key=>$values) { Echo $values.PHP_EOL; } Richard L. Buskirk -----Original Message----- From: Adam Preece [mailto:ad84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 11:37 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: accessing data from an array within an array. hello all. im trying to make a function that fetches all rows in the database and stores each row (Array) within an array. so the code is as follows: public function fetch_all($table_name,$order = "DESC"){ $array['row'] = array(); strtoupper($order); $query = "SELECT * FROM `{$table_name}` ORDER BY id {$order}"; $result = $this->gen_query($query); while($row = $this->fetch_assoc($result)){ $array['row'][] = $row; } if($this->sql_error_check($result)){ return $array; } } this returns (ill just paste 1 row for the sake of the email length: Array ( [row] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [id] => 9 [name] => TESTER [title] => TESTER [heading] => TESTER [text] => TESTER [gallery_id] => 0 [meta_desc] => TESTER [meta_keywords] => TESTER [meta_author] => TESTER [page_id] => 0 [date_time] => 2011-05-07 06:49:39 [image] => [user_access_id] => 1 ) How do i access each array within the array and throw out the data for each one. im pretty confused on this one. any help would be appreciated. Adam -- 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