get_records_sql returns only one result using inner join in moodle

Question

I have used following code for getting category and corresponding course detail in MOODLE

global $DB;

$catlist = $DB->get_records_sql(
'SELECT ca.id,ca.name,ca.coursecount, c.id as course_id , c.category,
c.fullname, c.shortname , c.summary , c.format, c.startdate , c.timecreated 
FROM {course_categories} as ca inner join {course} as c on ca.id = c.category 
WHERE ca.parent > ? and ca.visible = ? and c.visible = ? ', array('0','1','1'));

echo "<pre>";print_r($catlist); echo "</pre>";  

When i execute this query I am getting a result array with only one of the result rows, whereas executing the same sql in the mysql database directly returns many rows.

Table course_categories have 2 category 'account' and 'business' have active condition using visible =1 and also contain parent category. Table course have 4 course 2 of each related to category 'account' and 'business'

result like this:

Array
(
    [1] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 1
            [name] => Accounts
            [coursecount] => 2
            [course_id] => 4
            [category] => 1
            [fullname] => Finance
            [shortname] => Finance
            [summary] => 

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            [format] => weeks
            [startdate] => 1461695400
            [timecreated] => 1461653620
        )

    [2] => stdClass Object
        (
            [id] => 2
            [name] => Business
            [coursecount] => 2
            [course_id] => 5
            [category] => 2
            [fullname] => Animal Health Honours (BSc(Hons))
            [shortname] => Animal Health Honours
            [summary] => 

Sl/NO, Course Name, Duration. HARDWARE & NETWORKING. 1, Advacnce Diploma in Computer Hardware Maintanance & Networking(ADCHMN), 12 Months.

            [format] => weeks
            [startdate] => 1461781800
            [timecreated] => 1461760598
        )

)

Can any one help to resolved this problem.

Answer 1

The results of calling any of the get_records* functions in Moodle are returned as an array indexed by the first field in the results (which is very helpful if, for example, you get an array of user records, then want to jump straight to one record, based on the userid).

As your query returns the categoryid as the first field, only 1 result will be returned for each category (if you have debugging set to developer, you will get a warning about this).

To fix, either use a different field as the first value returned (in this case, c.id would be a good candidate), or use one of the get_recordset* functions instead and loop through the results with foreach.