Question

My php function looks like that

function generateTour ($lang, $db)
{
    echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">';
    $title='title_'.$lang;
    $txt='txt_'.$lang;
    $result = $db->query("SELECT id, $title, $txt FROM 1_table");
    $count= $result->num_rows;
    $i=1;
    while($row=$result->fetch_object())
    {
    if($i%3==0) echo '<tr>'; 
    echo '<td width="33%">
    <div class="tour_item" style="background-image:url(core/content/img/pages/1/slide/'.$row->id.'.png)">
    <div class="tour_item_title"><a href="?id='.$row->id.'">';
    echo '</a></div><div class="tour_item_text"><a href="?id='.$row->id.'"></div>
    </div>';
    if($i==$count-1) echo '</td></tr>'; 
    else if($i%3==0) echo '</td></tr><tr>'; 
    $i++;
}
    echo '</table>';
}

As you see it echoes result line by line. Not all at once. I want to collect all variables to one array and return this array. Is it possible? how to do it?

Please don’t post your ideas about security holes .. etc. I’m filtering $title, $txt varibales against sql injections. (i have array for of possible field names. My filter function checks theese variables’ values every time. )

Answer 1

$data = array();
while ($row = $result->fetchObject()) {
   $data[] = $row;
}

Is the absolutely most basic method of cacheing a result set in an array. You’d just modify this to store your generated html instead.