I am trying to do something that should be trivial. I have a database table that I want to load into an array so that I can use the elements later on in my code. What I dont understand is how to put the elements into a simple 2 dimensional array so that I can get elements to the elements lik $tbl[$r][$c]

So basically I would like to do something like:

           $tbl=array();
           $rowno='0';
           while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
           {
               $Type=$row['Type'];
               $Category=$row['Category'];
               $SubCategory=$row['SubCategory'];
               $InflationRate=$row['InflationRate'];
               $tbl[$rowno][0]=$rowno;
               $tbl[$rowno][1]=$Category;
               $tbl[$rowno][2]=$SubCategory;
               $tbl[$rowno][3]=$InflationRate;
               $tbl[$rowno][4]=0;
               $rowno++;
           }
Member Avatar for Zagga

Hi hlamster,

If I understand you right, this should help.

<?php
// Initialise the main array and counter.
$main_array = array();
$rowno='0';

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
// Set the variables.
    $Type=$row['Type'];
    $Category=$row['Category'];
    $SubCategory=$row['SubCategory'];
    $InflationRate=$row['InflationRate'];

// Push all the variables onto the end of the main array.
    array_push($main_array, $Type, $Category, $SubCategory, $InflationRate);

// Create the sub array.
    $tbl = array($rowno, $Category, $SubCategory, $InflationRate);

// Push the sub array onto the end of the main array.
    array_push($main_array, $tbl);

// Increment the counter.
    $rowno++;
}
?>

I removed line 15 as it seemed to give me double values. Dumping it with print_r seems to show that everything is in the array ... but how can I retrieve it. I tried the following but it just gave me junk:

        for ($i=0; $i<$nr; $i++)
        {
           print "main_array[$i] = ";
           for ($j=0; $j<5; $j++) print "$main_array[$i][$j] ";
           print "<br />\n";
        }

I am sure there is a simple way to do this - just can't figure it out.

Thanks/Hal

Member Avatar for Zagga

Hi again.

The reason there were duplicate values is $tbl is an array (the mulit part in multi-dimensional) containing all the values again. I assumed you wanted to keep it that way.

You are almost on the right track with retrieving the values, but you need a FOREACH loop instead of a FOR loop.

<?php
foreach ($main_array as $value){
    $value[0] = $type;
    $value[1] = $category;
    $value[2] = $subcategory;
    $value[3] = $InflationRate;
    $value[4] = $tbl; // This is also an array so you need to add another FOREACH loop here to retrieve it's values.

    // Do something here with this set of values before moving on to the next loop.
}
?>

I can create the array. It looks like the following using print_r:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => Auto [2] => Gas [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 2 [1] => Auto [2] => Maintenance [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [2] => Array ( [0] => 3 [1] => Auto [2] => Insurance [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [3] => Array ( [0] => 4 [1] => Auto [2] => Car Payments [3] => 0 [4] => 0 ) [4] => Array ( [0] => 5 [1] => Auto [2] => *Other [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [5] => Array ( [0] => 6 [1] => Clothing [2] => Children [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [6] => Array ( [0] => 7 [1] => Clothing [2] => Wife [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [7] => Array ( [0] => 8 [1] => Clothing [2] => Husband [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [8] => Array ( [0] => 9 [1] => Clothing [2] => *Other [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [9] => Array ( [0] => 10 [1] => Food [2] => Supermakets [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [10] => Array ( [0] => 11 [1] => Food [2] => Meals Out with Kids [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [11] => Array ( [0] => 12 [1] => Food [2] => Meals Out w/o Kids [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [12] => Array ( [0] => 13 [1] => Food [2] => *Other [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) [13] => Array ( [0] => 14 [1] => Gifts [2] => Children [3] => 3.75 [4] => 0 ) 

How do I get to the 2nd element in the 3rd row of the array (i.e. $main_array[2][1] ='Auto') and the 3rd element in the 3rd row (i.e.$ main_array[2][2] = 'Insurance')

I tried the following but it didn't work:

        foreach ($main_array as $value)
        {
           for ($j=0; $j<5; $j++) print "$value[j] ";
           print "<br />\n";
        }

Thanks. I know I should know this but it is driving me nuts.
Hal

Member Avatar for Zagga

Hi Hal,

It may be easiest to break the main array into smaller arrays, then retrieve the value.

// Break the main array into separate arrays.
$first_array = $main_array[0];
$second_array = $main_array[1];
$third_array = $main_array[2];
$tenth_array = $main_array[3];


// Choose the element you want as usual.
echo $third_array[1]; // will display the second element from the third array (Auto).
echo $third_array[2]; // will display the third element from the third array (Insurance).
echo $tenth_array[0]; // will display the fourth element from the tenth array (3.75).
Member Avatar for diafol

If you do this:

while($data = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $myarray[] = $data;
}
...
$x = 1;
foreach($myarray as $m){
    echo "Record #$x: Second value = {$m[1]}, Third value = {m[2]}<br />";
    $x++;
}

Is that what you need?

$tbl=array();
           //$rowno=0;//quotes makes it a string, we want a number/integer
           while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
           {
                //$row is a associative array already, why bother redefining it
                //$tbl[$rowno] = $row;
                //you dont even need the $rowno if it starts from 0 and goes up by 1 each loop
                //arrays in php auto assign a key of 0 going up by 1
                $tbl[] = $row;
               //$rowno++;
           }
           foreach($tbl as $v){
                echo "<tr>\r\n";
                //echo set fields out
                //echo "<td>{$v['Type']}</td>\r\n";
                //echo "<td>{$v['Category']}</td>\r\n";
                //echo "<td>{$v['SubCategory']}</td>\r\n";
                //echo "<td>{$v['InflationRate']}</td>\r\n";
                //or loop through all available fields
                foreach($v as $key=>$value){
                    echo "<td>{$key} -> {$value}</td>\r\n";
                }
                echo "</tr>\r\n";
           }

What i do when working with data from tables is i create an array with the unique id from the database being the key of the array ie. at this point:

$clientArray = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    $clientArray[$row['client_id']] = $row;
}

Then later you can reference any client you want with it for data - echo $clientArray[126]['contract_start']; or even loop through another array of saved client id's:

$myClients = array(3,12,33,75);
foreach($myClients as $v){
    echo $clientArray[$v]['first_name'].' '.$clientArray[$v]['surname'].' - '.$clientArray[$v]['company'].' <a href="view-client.php?id='.$v.'">View client</a>'."\r\n";
}

In JSP, I tried to insert values for a textfield where the textfield runs according to condition in WHILE loop.
But i am unable to read all those values from the textfield insert those into Oracle database.

1.     <%
2.      while (rs.next()) {
3.    %>
4.     <TD>
5.      <input type="text" size="2" name="classesattended" id="classesattended" value="1" />
6.      </TD>
7.      
8.     * //for inserting i have used prepare statemnet*
9.    <% st = con.prepareStatement("update std set ca='"+classesattended+"'  where year=1");
10.     st.executeUpdate();
11.     }%> 

Can i get any help?????

Member Avatar for diafol

@Manda
This is a PHP forum - you need to post to the JSP forum.

oh 5n @diafol

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