Because I had a hard time finding this simple answer, I am leaving myself a note here: How to get a numerically indexed array out of a MySQL database with PHP:
$result = mysql_query("SELECT `Some_Field` FROM `Table` WHERE (whatever...)"); $i=0; while ($array = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $numerically_indexed_array_i_want[] = $array[0]; echo $i." ". $numerically_indexed_array_i_want[$i]."<br>"; $i++; } /****** Verify that the array has been populated properly ******/ echo "<pre>" . print_r($numerically_indexed_array_i_want, true) . "</pre>";