PHP reading MySQL query results into an array

Question

I am currently running a MySQL query to return song titles from a database. Each song title returned displays on a different line when I echo the results. I would like to return the song titles as an array and then echo that array.

Example output: songTitle1 songTitle2 songTitle3

What I am looking for: Array ([1] => songTitle1 [2] => songTitle2) and so on

Thanks.

Here is my PHP script:

<?php

$varusername = $_POST['username'];

//connection string
$connection=mysqli_connect(<server_details>);

//check connection
if(!$connection)

{die("Failed to connect to MySql:".mysqli_connect_error());}

else
$query = "SELECT Title FROM songs WHERE Uusername='$varusername'";

$result = $connection->query($query);

if ($result->num_rows > 0){
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
        echo $row["Title"]. "<br>";
    }       
}

else

{die('SQL Error:'.mysqli_error($connection));}

mysqli_close($connection);

?>

Answer 1

You can create an array before the while loop runs and then use array_push to add each song item (or just the title) onto it. From there use print_r($array) , var_dump($array) or json_encode($array) to echo the array (as you cannot echo an array out directly).

Example code snippet:

$result = $connection->query($query);

$songsArray = array();

if ($result->num_rows > 0){
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
        array_push($songsArray, $row);
    }       
}

echo print_r($songsArray);
echo var_dump($songsArray);
echo json_encode($songsArray);