How to get the columns names along with resultset in php/mysql?

Question

Is this OK ?

$i = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    $resultset[] = $row;
    $columns[] = mysql_fetch_field($result, $i);
}

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Answer 1

Use mysql_fetch_assoc to get only an associative array and retrieve the column names with the first iteration:

$columns = array();
$resultset = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    if (empty($columns)) {
        $columns = array_keys($row);
    }
    $resultset[] = $row;
}

Now you can print the head of your table with the first iteration as well:

echo '';
$columns = array();
$resultset = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    if (empty($columns)) {
        $columns = array_keys($row);
        echo '';
    }
    $resultset[] = $row;
    echo '';
}
echo '
'.implode('
', $columns).'
'.implode('
', $rows).'
';