Fetch a result row as an associative array in PHP
Description
The following code shows how to fetch a result row as an associative array.
Example
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<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","test");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$sql="SELECT name,birthday FROM employee";
$result=mysqli_query($con,$sql);
// Associative array
$row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
printf ("%s (%s)\n",$row["name"],$row["birthday"]);
// Free result set
mysqli_free_result($result);
mysqli_close($con);
?>
The code above generates the following result.
