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MDB_Common::getRow()

MDB_Common::getRow() -- fetch the first row

Synopsis

require_once 'MDB.php';

array &getRow (string $query, array [$types = NULL], array [$params = array()], array [$param_types = NULL], integer [$fetchmode = MDB_FETCHMODE_DEFAULT])

Description

Fetch the first row of data returned from a query. The function takes care of doing the query and freeing the results when finished.

Parameter

string $query

the SQL query

array $types

if supplied, the types of the columns in the result set will be set for fetching

array $params

if supplied, prepareQuery()/ executeQuery() will be used with this array as execute parameters

array $param_types

if supplied, the values in $param will automatically set to the passed datatypes

integer $fetchmode

the fetch mode to use, default is MDB_FETCHMODE_DEFAULT

Return value

array - the first row of results as an array indexed from 0 or a MDB_Error, if fail

Throws

Table 26-1. Possible PEAR_Error values

Error codeError messageReasonSolution
MDB_ERROR_INVALID NULL SQL statment for preparing is not valid. See the prepareQuery() documentation, if you want to use a SQL statemt using wildcards.
MDB_ERROR_NEED_MORE_DATA NULL To less data for filling the prepared SQL statment. Check the number of wild cards given in the SQL statment prepareQuery() . Check the count of entries in the array for $params. The count of entries have to be equal to the number of wild cards.
MDB_ERROR_NO_DB_SELECTED NULL No database was choosen. Check the DSN in connect() .
every other error code  Database specific error Check the database related section of PHP-Manual to detect the reason for this error. In the most cases a misformed SQL statment. Ie. using LIMIT in a SQL-Statment for an Oracle database.

Note

This function can not be called statically.

See

query() , limitQuery() , prepareQuery() executeQuery() , getCol() , getRow() , getAssoc()

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