PHP MYSQL multidimensional array

Question

I\'m having major headaches trying to create a multidimensional array from two separate MySQL selects.... I\'ve been searching here and Google all day and have to finally admit

Answer 1

You need to get a little creative here. Something like the following would work as a join AND with multi-dimensional data:

 & $data) {
    // Start with just ID
    $newarray = array(
      "id" => $id
    );

    // Get the data, if we have any
    if (count($data))
      $newarray["educationalnames"] = & $data;

    // Add to our final array and clear the newarray
    $finalarray[] = & $newarray;
    unset($newarray);
  }


  // ======================================================================
  // Get the JSON of our result
  $jsonresult = json_encode($finalarray);


  // ======================================================================
  // Echo it to test
  echo $jsonresult;


  // ======================================================================
  // Close the database
  mysql_close($con);
?>

And the resulting $jsondata would look like this (but not so unravelled of course):

[
  {
    "id": "8m8wwy",
    "educationalnames": ["GCSE - English", "GCSE - Maths"]
  },
  {
    "id": "wiL7Bn"
  },
  {
    "id": "zAw6M1"
  }
]