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    <p>I have a function that generates a dropdown based on a query or array that is passed to it (it does more than that, but it's immaterial to this question). I currently have both working fine, but there is a lot of redundancy in the function to make both queries and arrays work and I'd like to streamline it.</p> <p>What I'm wondering if there is a way to "cast" or convert a query result to be treated as an associative array instead of a resource without having to loop over the query results. By the way, we're currently on ms sql with no plans to move to another RDBMS.</p> <p>EDIT: Here's my code (a bit modified from production, but you'll get the gist).</p> <pre><code>function phpSelect($varName, &amp;$queryName,$valueField, $displayField, $selectedValue, $returnFullSelect = true, $additionalAttributes = "", $distinctOnly = false){ /** * Creates select dropdown from SQL results and selects given value */ $thisSelect = ''; $resultsArray = array(); //If they request a full tag, start it here// if($returnFullSelect){ $thisSelect = "&lt;select name=\"$varName\" id=\"$varName\" " .$additionalAttributes .'&gt; '; $thisSelect .= ' &lt;option value=""&gt; &lt;/option&gt; ';// clean up - decide if we should put a blank option first or not } if(is_resource($queryName) ){ // use this for queries if( mssql_num_rows($queryName) == 0) return '&lt;!-- Query passed was empty --&gt;';//If the query is empty, just return empty string mssql_data_seek($queryName,0); //new dBug($queryName); $row_thisQuery = mssql_fetch_assoc($queryName); $totalRows_thisQuery = mssql_num_rows($queryName); do { $tempAlreadyExists = array_search(trim(strtoupper($row_thisQuery[$valueField])),$resultsArray); if(!$distinctOnly or !is_numeric($tempAlreadyExists) ){ // if Distinct is set to false or this value is not already in the array, add to the array, otherwise, skip it $thisOption = '&lt;option value="' .$row_thisQuery[$valueField] .'"'; if( is_string($selectedValue) ){ //perform case insensitive check if( strtoupper( trim($row_thisQuery[$valueField]) ) == strtoupper( trim($selectedValue) ) ){ $thisOption .=" selected"; } } else { if($row_thisQuery[$valueField] == $selectedValue){ $thisOption .=" selected"; } } $thisOption .='&gt;'; $thisOption .= $row_thisQuery[$displayField]; $thisOption .= '&lt;/option&gt; '; $thisSelect .= $thisOption; array_push($resultsArray,trim( strtoupper($row_thisQuery[$valueField]) ) ); } //End checking for distinct values } while ($row_thisQuery = mssql_fetch_assoc($queryName)); if($returnFullSelect){ $thisSelect .= '&lt;/select&gt; '; } return $thisSelect; } elseif( is_array($queryName) ){ // use this for arrays foreach ($queryName as $i =&gt; $values) { $thisOption = '&lt;option value="' .$values[$valueField] .'"'; if($values[$valueField] == $selectedValue){ $thisOption .=" selected"; } $thisOption .='&gt;'; $thisOption .= $values[$displayField]; $thisOption .= '&lt;/option&gt; '; $thisSelect .= $thisOption; } //If they request a full tag, end it here// if($returnFullSelect){ $thisSelect .= '&lt;/select&gt; '; } return $thisSelect; } else { // didn't pass a query or array, return failure return false; } } </code></pre>
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    1. COHave you checked `mssql_fetch_assoc`
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    2. COI should mention that I did google this and came up empty. mssql_fetch_array is the closest they came and that only returns one row in the array and I'm looking to convert the whole result set.
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    3. COcan you show the code of your query ?
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