Question

How can I add a row to array using PDO. Previously i did it like this $message = array('status' => 'ok'; But when I try to use this in PDO like this it does’t work

 try {
    $dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname", $dbuser, $dbpass);  
    $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    $stmt = $dbh->query($sql);  
    $employees = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
$employees['status'] = 'ok';
$employees = array($employees);
    $dbh = null;
    header('Content-Type: application/json');
    echo '{"key":'. json_encode($employees) .'}'; 
}

Answer 1

Try

$employees = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

If you want to typecast $employees into an array, you should be using

$employees = (array)$employees;