What are the implications of trying to treat a MySQL result resource as an array in PHP, and what are the recommended approaches for handling this situation?

When trying to treat a MySQL result resource as an array in PHP, it will result in an error because a result resource is not directly iterable as an array. To access the data from the result resource, you need to fetch rows one by one using functions like `mysqli_fetch_assoc()` or `mysqli_fetch_array()`. It is recommended to fetch rows from the result resource and store them in an array for easier manipulation.

// Assuming $result is the MySQL result resource
$data = array();
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $data[] = $row;
}

// Now $data is an array containing all the rows from the MySQL result resource