Question

Fortunately, I know how to fetch data from the database, That’s not a problem. For my object oriented application I would have a table with users / persons. I also have a person class.

The case: I would like to show to the end user a list with all the persons. What is the correct way to show do this?

1. using mysql_fetch_object() in this case php will create it’s own type of object, not my own type of person
2. Fetching all the rows from the db and then create an object of each?

Or is there an other better way to do it?

Can you also please show some (pseudo) code?

Thanks

Answer 1

The mysql_fetch_object() function takes a second parameter, which is the class name to use:

$myPerson = mysql_fetch_object($result, 'person');