How do I store all results from an SQL query in a multidimensional array?

Question

hello every one i want to convert my array into other array type , plz help me out . I m using this

$row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC); 

and output is

Array ( [user_id] => 250 [name] => a [age] => sfsf [pic_path] => )

but i want the the output in this format

Array ( [0] => Array ( [user_id] => 250 [name] => a [age] => sfsf [pic_path] => ) [1] => Array ( [user_id] => 251 [name] => b [age] => sfsfs [pic_path] => ) )

so what function i should us to get the array in this format

Answer 1

$data = array(); // create a variable to hold the information
while (($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) !== false){
  $data[] = $row; // add the row in to the results (data) array
}

print_r($data); // print result

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Update Feb '17 Now that it's 2017, it's advised you use PDOs over mysql_*. A lot safer and can return this natively with fetchAll (as shown in `TrexXx's answer).

Answer 2

The only way to avoid doing a loop would to use PDO (PHP Data Objects) which is a better way to access database in PHP and you could do this :

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', 'root', '');
    
$q = $pdo->query('select * from yourtable');
$r = $q->fetchAll();
    
var_dump($r);