SQL Select * from multiple tables

Question

Using PHP/PDO/MySQL is it possible to use a wildcard for the columns when a select is done on multiple tables and the returned array keys are fully qualified to avoid column

Answer 1

Shamelessly repackaged from @goat:

// Workaround for setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_FETCH_TABLE_NAMES, true);
function pdoStatementExecuteAndFetchObjWithTableNames(PDOStatement $statement)
{
  $statement->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_NUM);
  $statement->execute();

  //build our associative array keys
  $qualifiedColumnNames = array();
  for ($i = 0; $i < $statement->columnCount(); $i++) {
      $columnMeta = $statement->getColumnMeta($i);
      $qualifiedColumnNames[] = "$columnMeta[table].$columnMeta[name]";
  }

  //fetch results and combine with keys
  while ($row = $statement->fetch()) {
      $qualifiedRow = array_combine($qualifiedColumnNames, $row);
      yield (object) $qualifiedRow;
  }  
}

NOTE: if you use:

SELECT 1 FROM my_table AS my_table_alias

then you will get my_table. I would have hoped for my_table_alias. I got this result with PHP 5.6 and sqlite driver.