Question

I have this snippet of code that completely screws up when I run it. It doesn’t even throw an exception. It just causes a server error.

    try {
        $stmt = $this->database->prepare(
                "SELECT * FROM news_posts");
        $result = $stmt->execute();
        $array = $result->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        print_r($array);
    } catch (PDOException $e) {
        echo "error?";
    }

Answer 1

PDOStatement::execute() doesn’t return its results; you call fetch on the query.

$stmt = $this->database->prepare(
        "SELECT * FROM news_posts");
$stmt->execute();
$array = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
print_r($array);

You could also shorten that to query(), since you’re not adding any parameters:

$stmt = $this->database->query('SELECT * FROM news_posts');
$array = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
print_r($array);