Re: [PHP-DB] PDO include table name prefixes in FETCH_ASSOC
[email protected] (Richard Quadling)
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On 24 March 2010 18:04, Aaron Paetznick <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the advise. I wanted a more automatic method of prefixing column > names, but I ended up just aliasing them all. > > I know I could always just issue multiple SELECTs, but I wish MySQL would > support this sort of functionality natively. I'd really like to reference > my results as $result["table0"]["column0"] from a single SELECT. > > Anyways, thanks all. > > > --Aaron > > > On 3/24/2010 11:28 AM, Niel Archer wrote: >>> >>> Many of my MySQL tables have columns with the same name. I want to have >>> PDO include table names in named result sets. For example: >>> >>> $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM table0, table1"); >>> $result = $sth->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); >>> >>> >>> I want $result to be organized like: >>> >>> echo $result["table0.column0"]; >>> echo $result["table0.column1"]; >>> echo $result["table1.column0"]; >>> echo $result["table1.column1"]; >>> >>> >>> Or, alternatively: >>> >>> echo $result["table0"]["column0"]; >>> echo $result["table0"]["column1"]; >>> echo $result["table1"]["column0"]; >>> echo $result["table1"]["column1"]; >>> >>> >>> Any ideas? Thanks! >> >> Sounds like you want to UNION two SELECTs >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/union.html >> >> (SELECT col1, col2, col4 FROM table1 WHERE ... ORDER BY ...) >> UNION >> (SELECT col1, col2, col4 FROM table2 WHERE ... ORDER BY ...) >> >> >>> --Aaron >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- >> Niel Archer >> niel.archer (at) blueyonder.co.uk >> >> >> > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I use MS SQL and have used other DBs. I've never seen the table name as part of the column name in a result set on any of them. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling