Taking our previous PDO example, and now using the fetchObject comman…

…d instead of fetch() or fetchAll(), plus example class to go with that object.

sources/04_using_fetchObject.php

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+<?php
+try {
+  $db = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mysite", "root", "");
+  $db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
+  $sql = "select userid, realname, lastloggedin, username, password "
+       . "from users where username = ? and password = ?";
+  $query = $db->prepare($sql);
+  $query->execute(array($_POST['username'], $_POST['password']));
+  $data = $query->fetchObject('user');
+  if ($data != false) {
+    echo $data;
+  }
+} catch (PDOException $e) {
+  error_log("User unable to login: " . $e->getMessage());
+}
+
+class user
+{
+  // Columns from the database
+  protected $userid = null;
+  protected $realname = null;
+  protected $lastloggedin = null;
+  protected $username = null;
+  protected $password = null;
+  // Processed Data
+  protected $transformed_lastloggedin = null
+
+  public function __construct()
+  {
+    if ($this->lastloggedin != null) {
+      $this->transformed_lastloggedin = date("H:i:s", strtotime($this->lastloggedin))
+                             . " on " . date("d-M-Y" , strtotime($this->lastloggedin);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public function toString()
+  {
+    echo "Hello {$this->realname}, your userid is {$this->userid} and "
+       . "you last logged in at {$this->transformed_lastloggedin}";
+  }
+}