Question

I am looping through a SQL query and I would like to grab that output and save it as a string variable.. is this possible?

My loop is as follows:

 foreach ($dbh->query($sql2) as $row2) {
        echo $row2['id'];
        echo $row2['staff'];
        echo $row2['dept'];
    }

And I would like to save all of the output as one string variable ie $output

Answer 1

$output="";

foreach ($dbh->query($sql2) as $row2) {
   $output.= $row2['id'];
   $output.= $row2['staff'];
   $output.= $row2['dept'];
}

you can append the each coloumn result

echo $output