Create PHP array from MySQL column

Question

mysql_fetch_array will give me an array of a fetched row. What\'s the best way generate an array from the values of all rows in one column?

Answer 1

There is no function to do this using the mysql extension, you can do this:

$result = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($r, MYSQL_NUM)) {
    $result[] = $row[0];
}

It is apparently marginally faster to fetch the columns in a numerically indexed array, and there is no real benefit here to having the associative array format.