PHP PDO succinct mySQL SELECT object - mysql

Question

Using PDO I have built a succinct object for retrieving rows from a database as a PHP object with the first column value being the name and the second column value being the desired value.
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `site`"; $site = array();
foreach($sodb->query($sql) as $sitefield){
$site[$sitefield['name']] = $sitefield['value'];
}
I now want to apply it to a function with 2 parameters, the first containing the table and the second containing any where clauses to then produce the same result.
function select($table,$condition){
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `$table`";
if($condition){
$sql .= " WHERE $condition";
}
foreach($sodb->query($sql) as $field){
return $table[$field['name']] = $field['value'];
}
}
The idea that this could be called something like this:
<?php select("options","class = 'apples'");?>
and then be used on page in the same format as the first method.
<?php echo $option['green'];?>
Giving me the value of the column named value that is in the same row as the value called 'green' in the column named field.
The problem of course is that the function will not return the foreach data like that. That is that this bit:
foreach($sodb->query($sql) as $field){
return $table[$field['name']] = $field['value'];
}
cannot return data like that.
Is there a way to make it?

Answer 1

Well, this:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `site`"; $site = array();
foreach($sodb->query($sql) as $sitefield){
$site[$sitefield['name']] = $sitefield['value'];
}
Can easily become this:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `site`";
$site = array();
foreach( $sodb->query($sql) as $row )
{
$site[] = $row;
}
print_r($site);
// or, where 0 is the index you want, etc.
echo $site[0]['name'];
So, you should be able to get a map of all of your columns into the multidimensional array $site.
Also, don't forget to sanitize your inputs before you dump them right into that query. One of the benefits of PDO is using placeholders to protect yourself from malicious users.