Re: PDO include table name prefixes in FETCH_ASSOC

On 24 March 2010 18:04, Aaron Paetznick <aaronp@critd.com> 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