Question

I made a blog. Everything is working correctly except for one thing; being able to compare my id in order to open the appropriate article.

I’m using FETCH_ASSOC:

$sth->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); 

I’m checking $_GET for an id:

if (isset($_GET['id']) && ($_GET['id'] == $blogid['id'])) { **PROBLEM IS WITH $blogid
$row = $sth->fetch()
//... Code to display html and db values 

If true, it shows the entire blog post. Else it displays all the blog intros:

<?php } else { ?>
<?php while($row = $sth->fetch()) {  ?>
//... Code to display html and db values

How can I access the id in my if statement? If I do something like:

$blogid = $sth->fetch()

it screws up $row = $sth->fetch() by reordering the posts

EDIT Query added:

$sth = $dbh->query('SELECT id, title, slug, body, image, author, date, category from blog ORDER BY date DESC');

Answer 1

You’re using PDO and MySQL slightly wrong here. Instead of getting all the blog posts and checking to see whether the one you’ve got has the correct ID, you should only get one blog post (row) from the DB using a WHERE clause, like this:

SELECT id, title, ... FROM blog 
WHERE id=[ID from $_GET] 
ORDER BY date DESC

PDO handles this for you fantastically well by allowing you to use placeholders:

SELECT id, title, ... FROM blog 
WHERE id=:theBlogID 
ORDER BY date DESC

Here, I’ve used the placeholder :theBlogID which will be replaced by the $_GET parameter .

Using PDO, your final code needs to prepare the query, bind a parameter to it, execute it and then get the result (checking if there actually is a result using PDO::rowCount()) something like this:

$sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT id, title, ... FROM blog 
                      WHERE id=:theBlogID 
                      ORDER BY date DESC');

$sth->bindParam(':theBlogID', $_GET['id'], PDO::PARAM_INT);    // Bind the ID from $_GET to the placeholder

$result = $sth->execute();    // Execute (run) the query

if($result->rowCount()) {    // Have we found any blog posts with the ID specified?
    $data = $result->fetchAll();

    foreach($data as $post) {
        // Print out your blog post
    }
}

It’s not clear how much of the above you currently have as you only give one or two line snippets here and there, but this should give a good outline of what you need to do.