PHP-Objects and Froms

[extjac]

Hello there!

I am new with PDO and I am trying to replace the old code with PDO...

The main issue i have is that i dont know how to get/use the objects vs the arrays when it comes to showing data.

Please see bellow examples and let me know if you can help.

CURRENT/OLD CODE:

class customer 
{
    function getCustomer($customer_id) 
    {
        $Sql = "SELECT * FROM customer WHERE customerID=".mysql_real_escape_string($customer_id);
        $Res = @mysql_query($Sql);
        $Row = @mysql_fetch_array($Res);
        $this->Name 		= ucfirst(($Row['Name']));
        $this->Email 		= ucfirst(($Row['Email'])); 
    return $Row;
    }
}

and in order to use the class i do the following:

//initiate the class
$Customer = new customer;
$Customer -> getCustomer($_GET[customer_id]);
echo $Customer->Name;
echo $Customer->Email;

i also use the code this way when i need forms:

<input name="customer_name" type="text" value="<?=$Customer->Name?>" />

SO...NEED SOME HELP BELOW...

I am learing PDO and i am trying to replace the old code (like the one above) with the new one, but i am not sure i am doing the right things...please see bellow:

NEW CODE:

//db coonection
$db = new PDO("mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_name",$db_user,$db_pass);
class customer 
{
	function __construct($db)
	{	
	  	$this->db = $db;
	}

    function getCustomer($customer_id) 
    {
        $Sql 	= "SELECT * FROM customer WHERE customerID=".mysql_real_escape_string($customer_id);
		$rs		= $this->db->query($sql);
		//$row 	= $rs->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        $row 	= $rs->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
    return $row;
    }
}

//initiate the class
$Customer = new customer;

question:
1-how can i use the Name and Email as the example shown above?

could I the following?

//initiate the class
$Customer = $Customer -> getCustomer($_GET[customer_id]);
echo $Customer->Name;
echo $Customer-Email;

How do you guys use it?
Sorry if i am not very clear! :)

I use a pdo wrapper class form here:

http://code.google.com/p/php-pdo-wrapper-class/

You don't need to use mysql_real_escape_string with is as it uses parametric binding.

The documentation is a little thin, but adding it to a project is straightforward. The setErrorCallbackFunction is a bit of a fiddle to get working though.

[veedeoo]

this code is already a loop over

$row 	= $rs->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

meaning, the objects can be called like this

echo $row->Name; and echo $row->Email;

However, if those objects are needed to be called through the instantiation of the class without being printed or echoed within the class, it may cost a little bit of server resources. Memory wise, but not a lot :).

We need to pass the obj to something else that we can call during the class instantiation. Not the best choice, but this is all I can think of right now.

Let's expand your code a little

## remember this is a loop over
$row = $rs->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

## let's assign them
$item['name'] = (string)$row->name; 
## Warning name is case sensitive which pertains to your database column name.
## let's set the next one email
$item['email'] = (string)$row->email;

$output[] = $item;
return $output;

Now, this is not a very clever thing to do, but since we don't want to print anything inside the function and within the class, I guess it is ok to do this. This is like a double jeopardy, because we already spent some memory on the loop over and will be spending the same amount for the foreach loop below

## instantiate the clas here
## call your function $something = $Customer -> getCustomer($_GET[customer_id]);

now the part that I don't like

foreach($something as $info){
  
echo $info['name']."<br/>";
echo $info['email']."<br/>";

}

[veedeoo]

ok, after giving this question much thoughts over a gallon of starbucks coffee, I decided to write and test based on the environment similar to the question.

This script uses a class, and then utilizing the PDO FETCH_CLASS. So, instead of investing some memory twice for the return of one, we will utilize the FETCH_CLASS by PDO, which is deemed to be the only way of doing things properly.

Feel free to modify this script for your needs.. I tested it under the php 5.X environment and it is working the way I expected it to be.

Here you have it.. the script is well commented. Please ignore the Morpheus an Neo thing, I just got carried away.. :)

<?php
## once again this script is written by PoorBoy or veedeoo.
## for whatever it's worth, feel free to use it.

class video{
## warning this $title refers to the database table column "title"
public $title;
## same as above
public $remotethumb;
## same as the two variables above
public $tags;
## assign description
public $description;
## This will be the output, either  print or echo which I always prefered
## of course we can do anything with the variables as declared above.
public function echo_something(){
## make the title red
$red ="";
$red .='<b style="color:red;">'.$this->title.'</b><br/>';
$red .='<b style="color:navy;">'.$this->description.'</b><br/>';
## if we want to add more values from the query, we can always do so by extending $red variables.
## in fact, we can even use this class to ouput a thumbnail base on the url of the thumbnails from the media table..
$red .= '<img src="'.$this->remotethumb.'"/><br/>';
 return $red;
}

} 
## settings.inc is a file where the database user, password, and db name is located.
## they are defined as follows; $db_host = "localhost";$db_user = "username"; $db_password = "db password";$db_database = "dbName";
include_once 'includes/settings.inc';

try {
    $someDb = new PDO("mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_database", $db_user, $db_password);
   ## double check and make sure we are connected. If we are, tell Morpheous and Neo about it, well yah.
   ## remove this in production site. we don't want the agents to know we are connected with Morpheus and Neo :).
    echo 'Yes, we are connected Morpheous and Neo!<br />';

   ## define our connection query
   ## don't forget to change media to your database table.
   $query = "SELECT * FROM media WHERE category='Pink Floyd' ";

    ## prepare to fetch PDOStatement objects 
    $pdoObject = $someDb->query($query);

    ## Now, fetch that class video above. using the FETCH_CLASS pdo object.
    $obj = $pdoObject->fetchALL(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, 'video');

  ## Unlike my first not so good example this will only take place once, and not twice.
    foreach($obj as $video)
        {
     ## remember the echo_something in our class video above? This is where we can call it.
        echo $video->echo_something().'<br />';
        } 
    ## I think it will be worth it if we close whatever we opened to complete our operation. Codes below can do just that.
    $someDb = null;
}
## We can either eliminate these remaining two lines below if needed be, but it is highly necessary when testing your class or the script.
catch(PDOException $e)
    {
    echo $e->getMessage();
    }
?>

Remember though.. this

try {

## some stuffs here

}

is not mandatory, but it is nice to be there. It will truly help people to write better codes. Especially for the templating environment like smarty, dwoo and others.