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PHP Designing Interfaces in PHP Introducing Interfaces Implement MySQL RepositoryInterface

Posted by John Shockey
John Shockey
45,061 Points

Challenge Task 2 makes no sense. What is the name of the MySQL database table passed to the method?

  1. Define the "all" method to return all items from the MySQL database table passed to the method.
  2. Use "fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)" to return the results as an array of objects.
sqlRepository.php 
<?php

class sqlRepository extends PDO implements RepositoryInterface {
  public function all($entity){
    $db = new PDO("DS", "USERNAME", "PASSWORD");
    $query = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM tablename");
    $query = $db->execute();
    $data = $db->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
    return $data->$entity;
  }
}

2 Answers

Aymen Hachicha
Aymen Hachicha
12,653 Points
Aymen Hachicha
Aymen Hachicha
12,653 Points

The Answer from Brad is not 100% correct. Our class extends PDO that means that our $this is a PDO-Object therefor could be used as $db variable itself. Here's what I mean:

<?php

class sqlRepository extends PDO implements RepositoryInterface 
{

    public function all($table) 
    {
        $db = $this;
        $query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM " . $table);
        $data = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
        return $data;
    }
}
?>
Brad Mullett
Brad Mullett
76,854 Points
Brad Mullett
Brad Mullett
76,854 Points

Okay, here's the answer I got to work:

<?php

class sqlRepository extends PDO implements RepositoryInterface {

    public function all($entity){
        $db = new PDO("sqlite:".__DIR__."/database.db");
        $query = $db->query("SELECT * FROM ".$entity);
        $data = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
        return $data;
    }
}

?>

The challenge mentions that the table will be passed to the method, so $entity contains the table name.

John Shockey
John Shockey
45,061 Points

The instructions for the challenge could have been a little more clear. I see you used parts from the integrating PHP with databases course. Thanks for the help Brad.

Eric Drake
Eric Drake
6,339 Points

Thanks! I never would have gotten this. The $*&@# challenge stated that it wanted all records from a MySQL table.