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Now that we have successfully run a query, we need to take a closer look at what is returned to us by our query method. All of the return data comes back to us in the form of a PDO Statement object.
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Now that we have successfully run a query,
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we need to take a closer look at what is
returned to us by our query method.
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All of the return data comes back to us in
the form of a PDO statement object.
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Okay continuing, we're going to get rid of
this exception that we have here.
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It's refreshed I've already fixed it in
the file.
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So refresh this and we're back to our PDO
statement object showing the query string.
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And we need to extract the results from
this.
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We wanna get, get all of our films out of
our PDO statement object.
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And the first place I would say check is
we go to our documentation and
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look up the PDOStatement object.
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I'm just gonna actually copy this and
paste it and hit enter, and
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that will take us to the manual page for
the PHP PDOStatement.
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So, here is our PDOStatement class.
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It, says it represents a prepared
statement and
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after it is executed, the associated
results set, so
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that is what we're gonna work with is our
associated results set.
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We're gonna go on down and
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look at the methods and the method that
we're gonna want here.
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Let's say we could do fetch, fetch, fetch
all.
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Yeah, that sounds good, fetch everything.
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This says it returns an array containing
all the result set rows.
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So it's going to return to us an array,
and
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it doesn't have any required arguments.
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So let's go ahead and run that method.
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On our results object which is a instance
of the PDOStatement object.
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And back over to our code, we're gonna go
down here and
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we're gonna work with this results set.
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So here I'm gonna continue to var_dump and
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then die our result set, but we want to
use the fetch all method.
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Before we dig into our fetch all method
and
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see what it's gonna return to us, we wanna
get rid of that error or
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the possibility of an exception being
thrown by the query being incorrect.
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The way we're gonna do that is with
wrapping it in a try catch block.
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So we'll go ahead up here to line four,
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come down a little bit, and wrap this in a
try block.
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Try no arguments.
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I'm gonna tab this in.
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All right.
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Close this guy out, and then open up
catch.
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And we are still going to catch the
Exception class, and
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pass it through to an object $e, close it
out.
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And in here the same thing as before.
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We're just going to echo out our exception
object, which is $e.
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And the method that we're going to use is
going to be
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the same as before, getMessage.
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Okay, pass that through just to make sure
that our try-catch block is working.
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We'll again, get rid of our correct
statement and then refresh.
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And then now you'll see it says General
Error.
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That's saying it's our syntax error.
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That's exactly what we wanted to see,
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except we didn't want to see the rest of
this.
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So we need to add a die statement to the
end of this.
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Okay, so let's refresh again.
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There we go much better.
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It just kills it, and gives us the actual
error itself.
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That's exactly what we're looking for.
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All right, let's go back in and fix our
statement here.
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Select, all right save that.
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Double check that we're back to working.
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And we are, great.
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Now instead of just dumping the results,
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we're going to use that method that we
looked at which is fetch all.
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So, object operator, fetch, capital A for
fetchAll.
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And then open and close parens with no
arguments and let's go see what it does.
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Hit refresh.
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All right.
We have an array with a thousand results.
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That's a lot.
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And it's really hard to look at right now,
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so let's put some pre tags in here so we
can see this a bit better.
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Right before here we'll go ahead and do,
echo.
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And then open up some tags for pre.
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Close it out.
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I'm gonna copy this line.
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I'm gonna head down here and close out my
pre tag.
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Let's go back and see if that makes it
looks a little nicer.
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Much better.
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So, looking at our result set here again,
we have a thousand results.
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A lot of results.
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We definitely would wanna paginate this in
a production environment, but
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again, this is just for examples and not
to be put into production.
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What do we have?
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We have each one of the films it seems.
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And a lot of information that looks
duplicate.
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Okay, so the only difference between them
is the key.
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So you see we have a film id and that's
equal to a string of one.
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And then we have a numerically indexed
zero, so
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the first index zero, with an id of one.
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Double checking title.
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Key of title, that's the academy dinosaur.
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All right?
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And then index one, which is a second key.
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And that's the same, title as well.
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So it looks like we have something indexed
by column name and
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something indexed by a numeric index.
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So let's go back to our PDO statement,
fetchAll.
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Look at the manual, and the first optional
argument is the fetch style,
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which takes another argument called fetch
argument.
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Okay, so let's look down here at fetch
style.
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So it says fetch_style controls the
content of the returned array as
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documented in the Fetch documents.
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So let's go to Fetch, see what that says.
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Okay this is a result set, single row,
fetch_style parameters.
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Okay so the default here, it says, is
returns an
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array indexed by both column name and zero
indexed column number.
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That's what we have.
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That's our default.
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But the option to do just the associative
array, is our first argument here.
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Great, great.
So that's PDO fetch.
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ASSOC or associative.
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So it returns an array index by column
name as a return in your result set.
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Let's do that.
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So we wanna set
fetch_style to PDO::FETCH_ASSOC.
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So I'm gonna copy this here and
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I'm gonna pass that through in our code
here in our FetchAll statement.
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Right here is our first argument.
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Gonna paste in that class constant.
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Hit Save.
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Let's go back to our code and refresh.
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Okay.
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Still 1,000 results.
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That's right.
That's exactly what we were looking for.
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And now all of them are indexed by column
name.
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So there's no miscellaneous zero through
whatever for the keys.
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It's just an associative array for each
film, that's awesome.
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So now we know that our result set is a
set of films indexed by a column name,
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so we should be able to build out our code
a little bit.
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So next we'll do that by providing some
links,
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work with these results, and create a
little bit more of a website.
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