Question

I want to get 1 column from a table in Drupal as 2 aliases. Something like this but with Drupal’s query methods.:

SELECT name AS label, name AS value FROM node WHERE 1

This Drupal code doesn’t set the right alias:

$query = db_select('node', 'node');
$query->fields('node', array('label' => 'name','value' => 'name'));

It returns something like: [name] => Science [node_name] => Science

Is there any way to set the alias?

Answer 1

The ‘fields’ method does not allow you to set aliases. If you look at the docs, the second argument for fields is an indexed array, so numbers only.

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes–database–select.inc/function/SelectQuery::fields/7

If you need aliases, then you need to use ‘addField’.

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes–database–select.inc/function/SelectQuery::addField/7

$query = db_select('node', 'n');

$query->addField('n', 'name', 'label');
$query->addField('n', 'name', 'value');