PHP select function

[Stefce]

Why i cannot pass array to function parametter with two items? here is the function, but i get just the first parameter Username

function selectSQL(Array $item, $table) {
    global $conn;
    foreach ($item as $field) {
        $sql = "SELECT `$field` FROM `$table`";
        $result = $conn->query($sql);

        if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
            while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                return $row["$field"];
            }
        }
    }
}

calling it like this:

$selectFields = Array("Username", "Email");
echo selectSQL($selectFields, "upstrey");

Not sure what you're trying to do. This works:

function selectSQL(Array $item, $table) {
    //global $conn;
    foreach ($item as $field) {
        echo $field;
    }
}

$selectFields = Array("Username", "Email");
selectSQL($selectFields, "upstrey");

Your problem is the return. You can only return once - so it breaks out of the loop and exits function after first iteration.

[Stefce]

Im trying to make a simple function to select from different tables and fields in Database

This code only retrives the first value which is Username=Stefan

[Stefce]

Im really confuzed someone please help ?

I told you about the return issue

[Stefce]

Even if i put out of the loop i get only the first result

function selectSQL(&$item, $table) {
    global $conn;
    foreach ($item as $field) {
        $sql = "SELECT `$field` FROM `$table`";
        $result = $conn->query($sql);
    }
    if ($result === false) {
        trigger_error('Wrong SQL: ' . $sql . ' Error: ' . $conn->error, E_USER_ERROR);
    } else if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
        while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
            $var = $row["$field"];
        }
    }
    return $var;
}

Obviously. You.re only returning one value. the last one in this case. Either change the return to an echo inside the loop or return an array and process further outside the function.

[Stefce]

Actually it works changing to echo but im curious how would i do it with arrays ?

I was trying like this but as you said its breaking after first retrived value;

function selectSQL(&$item, $table) {
    global $conn;
    foreach ($item as $field) {
        $sql = "SELECT `$field` FROM `$table`";
        $result = $conn->query($sql);

        if ($result === false) {
            trigger_error('Wrong SQL: ' . $sql . ' Error: ' . $conn->error, E_USER_ERROR);
        } else if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
            while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                $arrayName = array($row["$field"]);
            }
        }
    }
    return $arrayName;
}

[AssertNull]

My PHP is more than a little rusty and my SQL even rustier, but this looks off...

            while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                $arrayName = array($row["$field"]);
            }

Looks like $arrayName will keep getting overwritten in the while loop? Are you trying to APPEND to $arrayName every trip through the while loop? If so, I imagine this would be better?

            $arrayName = array();
            while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                $arrayName[] = array($row["$field"]);
            }

Not 100% sure what is supposed to be in $arrayName in the end, but from your posts/code it seems like you are writing over $arrayName in your code and do not want to.

Not sure whether you're using pdo or mysqli but pdo has a fetchAll method to get all db data. This can be returned for further processing. The mysqli version is a bit more tiresome. However if you want to run a loop and then return...

$r =[];
while(...){
    $r[] = ...;
 }
return $r;

[Stefce]

Thank you guys, but i have another problem now i want to return array of the fields so i can use them, this code it gives me wierd results

function selectSQL(&$item, $table) {
    global $conn;
    foreach ($item as $field) {
        $sql = "SELECT `$field` FROM `$table`";
        $result = $conn->query($sql);

        if ($result === false) {
            trigger_error('Wrong SQL: ' . $sql . ' Error: ' . $conn->error, E_USER_ERROR);
        } else if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
            $arrayName = array();
            while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
                $arrayName[] = array($row["$field"]);
                echo var_dump($arrayName);
            }
        }
    }
}

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Stefan ) ) 1 Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => [e-mail] ) ) 1

[Stefce]

I have finnaly make it here is what i was searching.

function selectSQL(&$item, $table) {
    global $conn;

    $fields = implode(',', $item);

    $sql = "SELECT $fields FROM `$table`";
    $result = $conn->query($sql);

    if ($result === false) {
        trigger_error('Wrong SQL: ' . $sql . ' Error: ' . $link->error, E_USER_ERROR);
    } else if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
        $fieldValue = array();
        while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
            $itemsArray = array();
            foreach($item as $field) {
                $itemsArray[$field] = $row[$field];
            }
            $fieldValue[] = $itemsArray;
        }
        return $fieldValue;
    }
}

$selectFields = array("ID", "Username", "Email");
$output = selectSQL($selectFields, "upstrey");
$arrlength = count($output);
for ($i=0; $i < $arrlength; $i++) {
    echo "ID: " . $output[$i]["ID"] . "<br>";
    echo "Username: " . $output[$i]["Username"] . "<br>";
    echo "Email: " . $output[$i]["Email"] . "<br>";
}