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PHP CRUD Operations with PHP Reading and Writing Reports Filtering Data

Posted by Delroy Lucan Muyambo
Delroy Lucan Muyambo
5,445 Points

CRUD operations with php

Challenge Task 2 of 2

Add an OPTIONAL parameter to accept if the function should return only people who have been Treehouse teachers. If the parameter is true, filter the results to show only the people that have the field 'treehouse' set to 1.

help guys!!

index.php 
<?php
function get_people() {
    include 'connection.php';

    //add code here
try {
       $results = $db->query("SELECT * FROM people ORDER BY last_name DESC");
  } catch(Exception $e) {
        echo "Error: Unable to retrieve query. " . $e->getMessage();
  }

     return $results->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

}

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Delroy,

I highly recommend you watch Searching Tables with 'WHERE' which explains how to filter down results using a where clause.