1) Write the regular select statement and again, instead of values, put named placeholders. For example:
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$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
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2) Prepare the query:
[code language=”php”]
$query = $dbh -> prepare($sql);
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3) Execute the query:
[code language=”php”]
$query -> execute();
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4) Assign the data which you pulled from the database (in the preceding step) to a variable.
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$results = $query -> fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
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Here I used the parameter PDO::FETCH_OBJ that returns the fetched data as an object. If you’d like to fetch the data in the form of an array, use: PDO::FETCH_ASSOC.
5) Make sure that you were able to retrieve the data from the database, by counting the number of records.
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if($query -> rowCount() > 0){}
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6) In case that the query returned at least one record, we can echo the records within a foreach loop:
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if($query -> rowCount() > 0)
{
foreach($results as $result)
{
echo $result -> name . ", ";
echo $result -> city . ", ";
echo $result -> date_added;
}
}
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All code together now:
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$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE city = :city";
$query = $dbh -> prepare($sql);
$query -> bindParam(‘:city’, $city, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$city = "New York";
$query -> execute();
$results = $query -> fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
if($query -> rowCount() > 0)
{
foreach($results as $result)
{
echo $result -> name . ", ";
echo $result -> city . ", ";
echo $result -> date_added;
}
}
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