Get rows from mysql table to php arrays

Question

How can i get every row of a mysql table and put it in a php array? Do i need a multidimensional array for this? The purpose of all this is to display some points on a google ma

Answer 1

The other answers do work - however OP asked for all rows and if ALL fields are wanted as well it would much nicer to leave it generic instead of having to update the php when the database changes

$query="SELECT * FROM table_name";

Also to this point returning the data can be left generic too - I really like the JSON format as it will dynamically update, and can be easily extracted from any source.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) 
{
  echo json_encode($row);
}