Question

I have a function in my class which is not completed. I’m searching a way to do it all night long. Well I want to fetch all the result of a SELECT request to MYSQL using PDO in a OOP class/function.

Here my function

function select($query)
{
    try
    {
    $sql = $this->connect->query($query);
        while ($row = $sql->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC))
        {
        return ????
        }
    }
    catch(PDOException $e) 
    {  
        echo $e->getMessage(); 
    }

}

I know that I can do it with a while loop, I tested a few options but most of the time I only got 1 result. Anyone a point for me, where I could start my search for a solution to this issue?

Answer 1

It’s pretty easy, actually. You use PDO::FETCH_CLASS and specify which class you want to instantiate for each row.

Here is an example that fetches all available rows as an array of objects of class YourClassName.

function select($query) {
    try {
        $sql = $this->connect->query($query);
        return $sql->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, YourClassName);
    } catch(PDOException $e) {  
        echo $e->getMessage(); 
    }
}