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[Analysis & Solutions]

Sire:

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:33:15PM -0400, John W. Markert wrote:
> 
> When using PHP with MySQL is there a way to find the index of a
> field/column by providing the associative name? I have n related
> elements in a table that I want to process in a loop and I want to ask
> MySQL where to start processing.

I don't believe there is one directly.  You could try to rig something up
using mysql_fetch_array().  That returns an array containing values of
both assciative and enumerated keys.  Then you might be able to find your
answer using array_search().  Hmm...  Actually, create two arrays.  One
enumerated.  One associative.  Find the value from the associative.  Then
use that value as the needle in the enumerated array "haystack" via
array_search().

But, after all that's said, I don't really see the point.  Why are you 
trying to do this?  Sounds like you're creating a problem or attacking 
something in a way that may be better approachced from another direction.

--Dan

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