Fetching into a custom class

Queries can be fetched into objects based on custom classes. For example, if we have a class named ExampleClass the following query will return objects of the type exampleClass.

$result = db_query("SELECT id, title FROM {example_table}", array(), array(
'fetch' => 'ExampleClass',
));

If the class has a __construct() method the objects will be created, the properties will be added to the object, and then the __construct() method will be called. For example, if you have the following class and query.

class ExampleClass {
function __construct() {
// Do something
}
}
$result = db_query("SELECT id, title FROM {example_table}", array(), array(
'fetch' => 'ExampleClass',
));

The object will be created, the id and title properties will be added to the object, and then __construct() will be executed. The order of these events is due to a bug in PHP for versions less than 5.2.

If there is a __construct() method on the object and that needs to be executed before the properties are added to the object the following example shows how to do this.

$result = db_query("SELECT id, title FROM {example_table}");
foreach ($result->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_CLASS | PDO::FETCH_PROPS_LATE, 'ExampleClass') as $record) {
// Do something
}

The arguments passed into fetchAll can be used in fetch the same way. PDO::FETCH_CLASS tells fetchAll to take the returned result set and add the values as properties to the object of type ExampleClass (the second argument). PDO::FETCH_PROPS_LATE tells fetchAll to add the result set as properties to the object after __construct() is called.