php-doc-en/reference/mysqli/functions/mysqli-fetch-assoc.xml

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  <refentry id="function.mysqli-fetch-assoc">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mysqli_fetch_assoc</refname>
    <refname>mysqli->fetch_assoc</refname>
    <refpurpose>Fetch a result row as an associative array</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>Procedural style:</para>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>array</type><methodname>mysqli_fetch_assoc</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>object</type><parameter>result</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>Object oriend style (method):</para>
     <classsynopsis>
      <ooclass><classname>result</classname></ooclass>
      <methodsynopsis>
       <type>array</type>
       <methodname>fetch_assoc</methodname>
       <methodparam><type>void</type><parameter></parameter></methodparam>
      </methodsynopsis>
     </classsynopsis>
    <para>
     Returns an associative array that corresponds to the fetched row or &null; if there are 
     no more rows.
    </para>
    <para>
     The <function>mysqli_fetch_assoc</function> function is used to return an associative array
     representing the next row in the result set for the result represented by the
     <parameter>result</parameter> parameter, where each key in the array represents the name
     of one of the result set's columns. 
    </para>
    <para>
     If two or more columns in the result set have the same column name, the associative array
     returned by the <function>mysqli_fetch_assoc</function> function will contain the value of
     the last column of that name. If you must work with result sets with this properity, the
     <function>mysqli_fetch_row</function> should be used which returns an numerically-indexed
     array instead.
    </para>
    &database.field-case;
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Return values</title>
    <para>
     Returns an array that corresponds to the fetched row or &null; if there are no more rows in resultset.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>See also</title>
    <para>
     <function>mysqli_fetch_array</function>,
     <function>mysqli_fetch_row</function>,
     <function>mysqli_fetch_object</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>
    <example>
     <title>Object oriented style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");

$mysqli->query( "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends"); 
$mysqli->query( "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))"); 
 
$mysqli->query( "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");

$result = $mysqli->query( "SELECT id, name FROM friends");

while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    printf ("ID: %s  Name: %s\n", $row["id"], $row["name"]);
}
$result->close();

$mysqli->close();
?>
]]>
     </programlisting>
    </example>
    <example>
     <title>Procedural style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "test");

mysqli_query($link, "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS friends"); 
mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TABLE friends (id int, name varchar(20))"); 
 
mysqli_query($link, "INSERT INTO friends VALUES (1,'Hartmut'), (2, 'Ulf')");

$result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT id, name FROM friends");

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
printf ("ID: %s  Name: %s\n", $row["id"], $row["name"]);
    }
mysqli_free_result($result);

mysqli_close($link);
?>
]]>
     </programlisting>
    </example>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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