<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_fetch_array</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PostgreSQL functions" HREF="ref.pgsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_fetch_all" HREF="function.pg-fetch-all.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_fetch_assoc" HREF="function.pg-fetch-assoc.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-fetch-all.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-fetch-assoc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pg-fetch-array" ></A >pg_fetch_array</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN76736" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.1, PHP 4 )</P >pg_fetch_array -- Fetch a row as an array</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN76739" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >pg_fetch_array</B > ( resource result [, int row [, int result_type]])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B > returns an array that corresponds to the fetched row (tuples/records). It returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >, if there are no more rows. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B > is an extended version of <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_row()</B ></A >. In addition to storing the data in the numeric indices (field index) to the result array, it also stores the data in associative indices (field name) by default. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >row</I ></TT > is row (record) number to be retrieved. First row is 0. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >result_type</I ></TT > is optional parameter controls how return value is initialized. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >result_type</I ></TT > is a constant and can take the following values: PGSQL_ASSOC, PGSQL_NUM, and PGSQL_BOTH. <B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B > returns associative array that has field name as key for PGSQL_ASSOC. field index as key with PGSQL_NUM and both field name/index as key with PGSQL_BOTH. Default is PGSQL_BOTH. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >result_type</I ></TT > was added in PHP 4.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B > is NOT significantly slower than using <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_row()</B ></A >, while it provides a significant ease of use. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-row.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_row()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-object.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_object()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-result.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_result()</B ></A >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN76776" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. PostgreSQL fetch array</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $conn = pg_pconnect ("dbname=publisher"); if (!$conn) { echo "An error occured.\n"; exit; } $result = pg_query ($conn, "SELECT * FROM authors"); if (!$result) { echo "An error occured.\n"; exit; } $arr = pg_fetch_array ($result, 0, PGSQL_NUM); echo $arr[0] . " <- array\n"; $arr = pg_fetch_array ($result, 1, PGSQL_ASSOC); echo $arr["author"] . " <- array\n"; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > From 4.1.0, <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >row</I ></TT > became optional. Calling <B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B > will increment internal row counter by 1. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-fetch-all.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-fetch-assoc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pg_fetch_all</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.pgsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pg_fetch_assoc</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >