Question

I’m quite new to PHP OOP and I have a question regarding a simple MYSQL query.
I have an index.php page where I want to output my results from my query.class file.

Here is my method,

 public function Query($rowName) {

   $q = mysql_query("SELECT * from p_tuts");

   while($row = mysql_fetch_array($q)) {

       echo $row[$rowName];
   }
 }

Now this works fine and I can call it though my index.php file

$Database->Query('tut_content');

But my issue is I want to wrap each content block in DIV containers and don’t want to have to echo the HTML code in the class file, so I want to really echo the row’s data in the index file, but unsure how to do this.

Kind regards

Answer 1

Pass the rows back as an array.

public function Query($colName) {

    $q = mysql_query("SELECT * from p_tuts");
    $rows = array();
    while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)) {
        $rows[] = $row[$colName];
    }
    return $rows;
}

It’s better this way anyway, because it keeps database code away from output code (i.e. echo).

Then output it like so:

<?php
$results = $Database->Query('tut_content');
foreach ($results as $result): ?>
    <div><?php echo $result; ?></div>
<?php endforeach; ?>