using List() with array PHP, Why won't this work?

Question

<?php
$query = mysql_query("SELECT `uid`,`name` FROM `location`");
while($result = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
    list($location_id, $location_name) = $result;
?>
<option value="contactLocation.php?view_id=<?php echo $location_id; ?>"><?php echo $location_name; ?></option>
<?php
}
?>

Can someone help me and tell me why this isn't working? I'm trying to put the uid and name columns into those two variables in the list.

Answer 1

You're fetching an associative array. You can use mysql_fetch_row or mysql_fetch_array instead for list() assignment.

Better yet, upgrade to PDO! (Or MySQLi!)

Answer 2

You can also assign it right from the fetch:

<?php
$query = mysql_query("SELECT `uid`,`name` FROM `location`");
while(list($location_id, $location_name) = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
?>
   <option value="contactLocation.php?view_id=<?php echo $location_id; ?>"><?php echo  $location_name; ?></option>
<?php
}
?>