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Associative array without while loop

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Sometimes we repeatedly want to have an associative array and having to write a while loop everytime to get one array in the variable $data (typically) gets a bit bothersome depending on how many times one has to write it in a certain plugin or infusion.... So I came up with a shortcut to put the entire result of a query into an associative array that one can just assign to one variable - and we can do whatever with it as we need.


function dbarrayassoc($result){   
   if(dbrows($result) > 0)   {
      $output = array();
      while($data = dbarray($result)){
         $output[] = $data;
      }
      return $output;
   }else{
      return false;
   }
}


I pasted it inside maincore.php file right after dbarray.

You'd use it like this...
$result = dbquery("SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE condition='1' ");
$data = dbarrayassoc($result);


$data will have an array of data rows. Since we don't always query the database to iterate over rows but sometimes we need to get more than one row... this can be a useful function.... it was for me, so I share in case it helps you too. :)
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Nice snippet, we should include it in the core and maybe add another argument to json encode the result, useful for ajax requests when you only need the data.
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Nice idea, I like the way you think. :D

It couold be something like...
function dbarrayassoc($result, $json_encode = false){   
   if(dbrows($result) > 0)   {
      $output = array();
      while($data = dbarray($result)){
         $output[] = $data;
      }
      if($json_encode) return json_encode($output);
      return $output;
   }else{
      return false;
   }
}
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