How to fetch row from custom table in drupal 7? - mysql

Question

I have used
$member_id = 12;
$results = db_query("select * from {customorders} where id = :fid", array(':fid' => $member_id));
foreach($results as $result) {
$name = $result['name'];
}
but I get error Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array
so what could be solution , and please correct me if I have written wrong query for select
i want "select * from customorders where id = 12"
and customorders is my created custom table in Drupal database
Please help me..
Thanks

Answer 1

The $result variable is returned as an array of objects. So you should use $result->name instead of $result['name'].
Your code can be fixed to be like that:
$member_id = 12;
$results = db_query("select * from {customorders} where id = :fid", array(':fid' => $member_id));
foreach($results as $result) {
$name = $result->name; // THE EDITED LINE.
}
Hope this works... Muhammad.

Answer 2

This worked for me:
$member_id = 12;
$results = db_query("select * from {customorders} where id = :fid", array(':fid' => $member_id))->fetchAll();
foreach($results as $result) {
$name = $result->name; // THE EDITED LINE.
}
Note the fetchAll() which resulted in the actual data, without this I got the database object only.