pg_fetch_assoc

slurppp at hotmail dot fr (2012-06-08 02:37:28)

Note that all pg_fetch_* function ignoring the original type of the data and always return strings. (for numbers too)

Alexey Loktionov (error at pochta dot ru) (2010-03-10 04:54:10)

Here is much powerful pg_parse_array() variant, based on FSM: for any dimension Postgres arrays (its string representation must be well-formed), with quotation rules checks, complexity O(N), where N is a length of string representation of Postgres array:

<?php

define('STATE_BEGIN', 1);
define('STATE_INARRAY',2);
define('STATE_OUTARRAY', 3);
define('STATE_INSLASH', 4);
define('STATE_INQUOTES', 5);

function pg_parse_array($value) {
        $resultArray = $indexArray = array(); $level = $index = 0;
        $ptr = &$resultArray;
        for($i = 0; $i < strlen($value); $i++){
            switch($level){
                case 1:
                    if($index > 0){
                        $ptr = & $ptr[sizeof($ptr)];
                    }
                    $indexArray[++$index] = & $ptr;
                    break;
                case -1:
                    $ptr = & $indexArray[--$index];
                    break;
            }
            $level = processFSM($value{$i}, $ptr);
        }
        return $resultArray;
    }
    
    function processFSM($chr, &$result){
        static $state = STATE_BEGIN, $index = 0;
        $level = 0;
        switch(true){
            case $chr == '{' && in_array($state, array(STATE_BEGIN,STATE_INARRAY,STATE_OUTARRAY), true):
                $state = STATE_INARRAY;
                $index = 0;
                $level = +1;
                break;
            case $chr == '}' && in_array($state, array(STATE_INARRAY,STATE_OUTARRAY), true):
                $state = STATE_OUTARRAY;
                $level = -1;
                break;
            case $chr == '\\' && $state !== STATE_BEGIN:
                $state = $state === STATE_INSLASH ? STATE_INQUOTES : STATE_INSLASH;
                break;
            
            case $chr == '"' && !in_array($state, array(STATE_BEGIN,STATE_INSLASH), true):
                $state = $state === STATE_INQUOTES ? STATE_INARRAY : STATE_INQUOTES;
                break;
            
            case $chr == ',' && in_array($state, array(STATE_INARRAY,STATE_OUTARRAY), true):
                $index = sizeof($result);
                break;
            
            case $state !== STATE_BEGIN:
                $state = $state === STATE_INSLASH ? STATE_INQUOTES : $state;
                isset($result[$index]) or $result[$index] = '';
                $result[$index] .= $chr;
                break;
        }
        return $level;
    }

?>

Anonymous (2010-01-16 03:16:13)

Be aware that if one of your result fields is an array, it will be output as a string using the general format of '{value1,value2, ... }' in accordance with postgres's behavior with SQL arrays.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO

So, here is a function to convert simple (one-dimensional) SQL arrays to PHP arrays:

<?php
function pg_parse_array($field)
/*
 * Converts a simple SQL array field to its PHP equivalent.  e.g:
 *
 *    {null}              --> Array(null);
 *    {"null"}            --> Array("null");
 *    {foo,bar}           --> Array("foo", "bar"); 
 *    {"foo,bar"}         --> Array("foo,bar");
 *    {"Hello \"World\""} --> Array('Hello "World"');
 *       
 */  
{
  // NULL fields are always NULL
  if (!is_string($field)) return $field;

  // Check for curly braces which may indicate an SQL array field
  if ($field[0] != '{' or substr($field, -1) != '}') return $field;
  $field = trim(substr($field, 1, -1));

  $array = Array();
  
  // Break up the string into the following:
  //  - quoted text that MAY have special chars escaped by a backslash
  //  - unquoted text that may NOT have special chars
  $search = '/(")?+((?(1)(?:\\\\.|[^"])*|[^,]+))(?(1)\\1)/';
  preg_match_all($search, $field, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
  
  foreach($matches as $value)
  {
    if ($value[1])
    {
      // Quoted element, with backslash used to escape chars
      $array[] = preg_replace('#\\\\(.)#', '$1', $value[2]);
    }
    else
    {
      // Unquoted element
      $value[2] = trim($value[2]);
      if (strtolower($value[2]) == 'null') $array[] = null; // NULL
      else $array[] = $value[2];
    }  
  }
  return $array;
}

// Some tests to demonstrate this function
var_export(pg_parse_array('{null}'); // Output is Array(null);
var_export(pg_parse_array('{foo,bar}'); // Output is Array('foo', 'bar');
var_export(pg_parse_array('{"null"}'); // Output is Array('null');

?>

Anonymous (2009-05-19 08:24:27)

Beware!  If your query returns multiple columns with the same names, only the right-most one will be contained in the result array.  This can cause problems if you are using a combination of joins:

For example:
<?php
// Let's say that 'pkey' is the primary-key colum for tables a and b (primary keys are never null)
$res = pg_query("Select a.pkey, b.* FROM a LEFT JOIN b using (pkey)");
$data = pg_fetch_assoc($res);
var_dump($data['pkey']) // Is actually b.pkey, may be NULL!
?>

Both tables contain a column named 'pkey'.  Now table 'b' is on the optional side of a LEFT JOIN, so b.pkey (implicitly included via 'b.*') may be NULL.

The problem arises when you use pg_fetch_assoc(), there are two columns named 'pkey' but the result array can only contain one value per key -- in this case it will pick the one from table B instead of the one from table A, and since B is on the optional side of the left-join, $data['pkey'] may be NULL.  So if you're expecting to retrieve the column from table A, you need to use a different pg_fetch() or rewrite your query to avoid ambiguity.

Anonymous (2008-10-13 17:18:37)

bytea columns are returned escaped.
you need to call pg-unescape-bytea() on them to get the original binary back.

Anonymous (2008-10-13 16:03:30)

regarding the optional int parameter
requesting a row number that is not present in the result set is an error. don't do it.
check with pg_num_rows() beforehand, or just use the default behavior which returns the rows in order and false after returning the last row it returns false immediately if no rows were returned.

strata_ranger at hotmail dot com (2008-08-26 15:01:00)

In a bit of follow-up to Luke's note about SQL booleans (this was a painful thing to learn the hard way), a relatively easy workaround is to typecase the boolean columns to integer inside the query, e.g:

<?php
// Assuming 'foo' is a table column of type boolean
$res = pg_query("Select foo as foo1, foo::integer as foo2 from bar");

$data = pg_fetch_assoc($res);
if ($data['foo1']) echo 'foo1 = TRUE'; // Doesn't work as expected (string 't' and string 'f' both evaluate as TRUE)
if ($data['foo2']) echo 'foo2 = TRUE'; // Works as expected (string '0' evaluates as FALSE)
?>

javier dot vilarroig at gmail dot com (2007-10-02 09:57:58)

Is worth to know that when you query on multiple tables only the first row with each name is returned.
That is, if you are joining to tables with a column called 'name' you will receive only one field called name in the array and it will correspond to the one on the first table.
Is advisable to allways allias your columns in that stuation.

johniskew (2007-03-01 09:28:56)

Here is another way to iterate a resultset and display all columns in very little code... might be faster than a foreach

<?php

print '<table>';
while($row=pg_fetch_assoc($rs2)) print '<tr><td>'.join('</td><td>',$row2).'</td></tr>';
print '</table>';

?>

(2006-05-24 12:59:21)

If you request a row that does not exist, it just fails, rather than simply returning false.

Luke (2005-09-22 06:34:43)

Note:
PostgreSQL boolean values set to TRUE are returned as the string "t"
PostgreSQL boolean values set to FALSE are returned as the string "f"

petrus at bmail dot com dot au (2005-02-24 19:22:46)

$dbconn3 = pg_connect("host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=blah user=blah password=blah");
$result = pg_query($dbconn3, "SELECT * FROM Packages");
echo "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>PostgreSQL Test Page</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>";
echo "<TABLE>";
$pkg = pg_fetch_assoc($result);
foreach ($pkg as $value) {
echo "<TR><TD>$value";
echo "</TR></TD>";
}
echo "</TABLE><P>";
echo "This package's full filename is: {$pkg['name']}-{$pkg['version']}{$pkg['extension']}";
echo "</BODY></HTML>";
For generating tables, this works, and personally I prefer foreach() to while loops because there's no danger of accidentally causing an infinite loop...foreach only works for as long as it has something to work with, and then stops. I thought the echo down the bottom might come in handy, too...took me a bit to find that out.

spam at pasher dot org (2003-10-24 18:35:10)

An important thing to note (as of PHP 4.3.2):
If you are used to using the "extended" comparision operators (=== and !==) to try to make your code easier to follow visually, this function will return NULL if the provided resource handle is invalid (as opposed to false). ie,
$rs = @pg_query('SELECT * FROM fake_table');
while (false !== ($row = @pg_fetch_assoc($rs)))
{
print_r($row);
}
Obviously you should check to see if $rs === false before you start the while loop, but this example is used to illustrate a potential infinite loop problem if $rs IS false.

ninja (whorl) thinkninja (stop) com (2003-06-21 08:29:12)

If you are moving between different versions of PHP, this might be handy:
if (!function_exists('pg_fetch_assoc')) {
function pg_fetch_assoc ($result)
{
return @pg_fetch_array($result, NULL, PGSQL_ASSOC);
}
}

Brenton Strickler (2003-01-06 17:53:56)

At a glance, the syntax listed at the top of this page doesn't match the example. The PGSQL_ASSOC flag isn't necessary.