mysqli_fetch_assoc Fetch a result row as an associative array arraymysqli_fetch_assoc resourceresult Returns an associative array that corresponds to the fetched row or &false; if there are no more rows. The mysqli_fetch_assoc function is used to return an associative array representing the next row in the result set for the result represented by the result parameter, where each key in the array represents the name of one of the result set's columns. If two or more columns in the result set have the same column name, the associative array returned by the mysqli_fetch_assoc function will contain the value of the last column of that name. If you must work with result sets with this properity, the mysqli_fetch_row should be used which returns an numerically-indexed array instead. &database.field-case; ]]> See also mysqli_fetch_array, mysqli_fetch_row and mysqli_fetch_object.