mySQL query for building dynamically populated model - mysql

Question

I have some code below which demonstrates a hard-coded example of what I would like to accomplish dynamically.
At a high level, I wish to do something like select * from view_data_$app_state and then get all of the data from that views table into my mustache templates dynamically.
The code I currently must use to group multiple rows of data for a specific column along with the views data is:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
class Example {
function __construct(){
try {
$this->db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=Example', 'root','drowssap');
}
catch (PDOException $e) {
print($e->getMessage());
die();
}
}
function __destruct(){
$this->db = null;
}
function string_to_array($links_string){
return explode(",", $links_string);
}
function get_view_data(){
$q = $this->db->prepare('select *, GROUP_CONCAT(`links`) as "links" from `view_data_global` ');
$q->execute();
$result = $q->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
return $result;
}
}
$Example = new Example();
$result = $Example->get_view_data();
$result[0]["links"] = $Example->string_to_array($result[0]["links"]);
echo json_encode($result);
This gives me the perfect object while
GROUP_CONCAT seems to be doing the trick this way, however I MUST know the column name that will contain multiple rows before writing the query. I am trying to figure out an approach for this and wish to make a custom query + code example that will transform cols with multiple rows of null null and not empty data into an array like above - but return the data.. again like the code above.
Below is an output of the actual data:
[{"id":"1","title":"This is the title test","links":["main","about","store"]}];
How can I replicate this process dynamically on each view table?
Thank you so much SO!

Answer 1

You can use PDOStatement::fetch to retrieve your results, with fetch_style set to PDO::FETCH_ASSOC (some other values will also provide the same information). In this case, the result set will be array indexed by column name. You can access this information with foreach (array_expression as $key => $value)
See the documentation for additional information.