[0] => Array
    (
        [0] => test0
        [name] => test0
        [1] => 1
        [customer_id] => 1
    )

[1] => Array
    (
        [0] => test
        [name] => test
        [1] => 2
        [customer_id] => 2
    )

foreach($res as $key=>$val)
{
  // have no idea..
}

foreach ($items as $key=>$value) {
    if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false) {
    	echo "$key|$valuen";
    }
}

$returnArray = array();
$i=0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH)) {
    if($row)
        $returnArray[$i++] = $row;
}
mysql_free_result($result);
return $returnArray;

'1' => 'bobs auto'

$out_array = array();
foreach($items as $key=>$val)
{
    if(is_int($key))
    {
      continue;
    }
    $out[$key['id']] = $val['cust'];
}



//echo'<pre>';
//print_r($out_array);
//echo'</pre>';

foreach ($out_array as $key=>$value) {
    if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false) {
    	echo "$key|$valuen";
    }
}

$out_array = array();
foreach($items as $key)
{
    $out_array[$key] = $val;
//$out_array[$key['id']] = $key['cust'];
}

Array
(
    [8] =>
    [FAT BURGER] =>
)

$out_array = array();
foreach($items as $key)
{
  //    $out_array[$key] = $val;
  $out_array[$key['id']] = $key['cust'];

  foreach ($out_array as $key=>$value)
  {
      if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false)
      {
    	  echo "$key|$valuen";
      }
  }

}

$out_array = array();
foreach($res as $key=>$val) {
    if(is_int($key)) {continue;}
    $out_array[$key] = $val;
}

$out_array = array();
foreach($items as $key=>$val)
{
    if(is_int($key))
    {
      continue;
    }
}
$out[$out_array['id']] = $out_array['cust'];


//echo'<pre>';
//print_r($out_array);
//echo'</pre>';

foreach ($out as $key=>$value) {
    if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false) {
        echo "$key|$valuen";
    }
}

$query = "SELECT * FROM Table WHERE ...";
$query = mysql_query($query);

while($info = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){

    //$info is now a single row, associative array
    echo print_r($info);
}

$my_array = array();
$info = $data[0]; //grab the first row of your data set from the original question.
    foreach($info as $index => $value){
        if(!is_int($index)){
            $my_array[$index] = $value;
        }
    }

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM dbname"); //Create the query to your database
while($data = mysql_fetch_array($query)) //Loop through our results from the query
{
    echo($data['fieldname']."<br/>"); //echo out data through the loop
}

$ret = array();

foreach($rows as $row)
{
    $ret[$row['id']] = $row['cust'];
}

$json = json_encode($ret);

echo $json;
// Prints something like:
//
// {1:'bob'}