遍历表的PDO结果

Question

I have a table named events like this with 3 entries:

-------------------------------------
| Name | Description | Image | Date |
-------------------------------------

I am calling a PDO query such as below:

`Connection handled in a class`
$stmt = $DB_con->prepare("SELECT Name, Description, Image, Date FROM events");
$stmt->execute();

$events = array();
if ($stmt->execute()) {
    while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
        $events = $row;
    }
}

And later in my code when I call upon $events :

for ($x = 0; $x < count($events); $x++) {
    echo $events[$x];
}

But all that returns for me is:

ArrayArrayArray

Answer 1

First of all, look at this statement here in the while() loop,

while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
    $events = $row;
           ^ it should be $events[]
}

In each iteration you're assigning the array to $events , not appending it.

And second, when you do this echo $events[$x]; it shows ArrayArrayArray because $events[$x] is actually an array, not a string.

So your code should be like this:

// your code

$events = array();
if ($stmt->execute()) {
    while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
        $events[] = $row;
    }
}

for ($x = 0; $x < count($events); $x++) {
    echo $events[$x]['Name'] . "<br />";

    // like that you can do this
    // echo $events[$x]['Description'];
    // echo $events[$x]['Image'];
    // echo $events[$x]['Date'];
}