Today, I spent a couple hours working on a customer management system for APS Web Design. Over the course of that work, I discovered a very interesting behavior in a particular function, specifically mysql_fetch_array().
For those not familiar with it, but familiar with PHP, this function takes the results returned by mysql_query(), and turns it into an array of values. There are two other functions that do similar things: mysql_fetch_row() and mysql_fetch_assoc().
mysql_fetch_row() ”fetches one row of data from the result associated with the specified result identifier. The row is returned as an array. Each result column is stored in an array offset, starting at offset 0″. source
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