Question

Trying out PDO for the first time.

$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=animals', $username, $password);  $stmt = $dbh->query('SELECT * FROM animals'); $stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_INTO, new animals);  foreach($stmt as $animals) {     echo $animals->name; } 

If i skip the setFetchMode() method, then I need to call $animals['name'] which I do not want.

But I do not want to call the setFetchMode() for each query I do.

Is there a way to set the default FetchMode ? Or some other method to make the query() return objects with one global setting.

Answer 1

Perhaps you could try extending the PDO class to automatically call the function for you… in brief:

 class myPDO extends PDO {    function animalQuery($sql)    {      $result = parent::query($sql);      $result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_INTO, new animals);      return $result;    }  //   // useful if you have different classes //   function vegetableQuery($sql) //   { //     $result = parent::query($sql); //     $result->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_INTO, new vegetables); //     return $result; //   } }  $dbh = new myPDO('mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=animals', $username, $password);  $stmt = $dbh->animalQuery('SELECT * FROM animals');  foreach($stmt as $animals) {     echo $animals->name; }