Question

I have a table that I am drawing information on that has a few fields. The two fields in particular that I need concatenated are Firstname and Surname but I cannot add another column to the actual table.

Is it possible to edit my PHP function to concatenate it for me when I call on it?

Here is my PHP function

public function getCustomerinfoByCompanyID($itemID) {

    $stmt = mysqli_prepare($this->connection, "SELECT * FROM $this->tablename where CompanyID=?");
    $this->throwExceptionOnError();

    mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, 'i', $itemID);        
    $this->throwExceptionOnError();

    mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
    $this->throwExceptionOnError();

    $rows = array();

    mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->CustID, $row->CompanyID, $row->FirstName, $row->Surname, $row->CellNo, $row->Email);

    while (mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt)) {
      $rows[] = $row;
      $row = new stdClass();
      mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->CustID, $row->CompanyID, $row->FirstName, $row->Surname, $row->CellNo, $row->Email);
    }

    mysqli_stmt_free_result($stmt);
    mysqli_close($this->connection);

    return $rows;
}

Answer 1

You can change your query as

SELECT *,CONCAT(FirstName,' ',Surname) as FullName FROM $this->tablename where CompanyID=?

then you change

mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->CustID, $row->CompanyID, $row->FirstName, $row->Surname, $row->CellNo, $row->Email);

to something like

mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->CustID, $row->CompanyID, $row->FullName, $row->CellNo, $row->Email);

And there you have it on one column