Question

I have a database table called “settings”, and in that table I’ve got 2 columns. Example picture:

As you can see, the first columns is called “setting_name” and the second is called “setting_value“.

How can I do, so whenever I write example:

echo $setting['ad_cost_micro'];

It will print out:

0.00200

Btw. is it possible to do without a while statement?

Answer 1

I tend to use PDO, and fetchAll().

$stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT `setting_name`, `setting_value` FROM `settings`');
$stmt->execute();
$setting = $stmt->fetchAll();
echo $settings['ad_cost_micro']; //Should output 0.00200.

Note: Regardless of what you use, a while loop is unavoidable because you HAVE to loop through the result set (fetchAll()) does that too, also, know that every loop is a while loop (even for loops!).