This question is quite specific for my needs, hence I can't find the best way to do this.
What I would like to do is fetch name and surname from the table people and combine both into an array to end up with such results:
"Bob Jones","Tony Wright",.. etc.
I'm using PDO for this. Here is what I have:
$attrs = array(PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true);
// connect to PDO
$pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=new", "root", "root", $attrs);
// the following tells PDO we want it to throw Exceptions for every error.
// this is far more useful than the default mode of throwing php errors
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$conn = $pdo->prepare("SELECT name, surname FROM people");
$conn->execute();
$results = $conn->fetchAll();
foreach($results as $row){
$fullName = $row['name'] . "," . $row['surname'];
print_r($fullName);
}
I have tried a few things, I'm just stuck with this code at minute. Any help, or suggestions is much appreciated.
$arr = array();
foreach($results as $row) {
$arr[] = "{$row['name']},{$row['surname']}";
}
echo implode($arr);
Once you’ve fetched the rows from the database, you need to loop over the result set and assign the combined name to a new array:
<?php
// result set from database
$results = $conn->fetchAll();
// create an empty array to store our names
$names = array();
// loop over result set and add entry to $names array
foreach ($results as $result) {
$names[] = $row['name'] . ' ' . $row['surname'];
}
print_r($names);
$fullname =array();
foreach($results as $row){
$fullName = $row['name'] . " " . $row['surname'];
}
print_r($fullname);
You can also resolve this problem in SQL, so foreach would not be needed any more.
Just replace
SELECT name, surname FROM people
with
SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ', name, surname) FROM people