How to force PDOStatement->fetchAll to return array of objects?

Question

I am writing my own simply ORM using PDO. My question is if you can force PDOStatement::fetchAll() method to return array of objects of stdClass? For example:

Answer 1

You should also be able to do the following:

$stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ); //set the mode for all fetch request

With any subsequent fetch request you can omit explicitly specifying the mode.

$stmt->setFetchAll(); //returns an array of objects

Answer 2

This will do it:

 <?php
 $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT name, colour FROM fruit");
 $sth->execute();

 $result = $q->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
 //$result contains an array of stdObjects
 ?>

However even cooler way is to get PDO to instantiate your own class and populate the properties for you:

Example #4 Instantiating a class for each result

The following example demonstrates the behaviour of the PDO::FETCH_CLASS fetch style.

 <?php
 class fruit {
     public $name;
     public $colour;
 }

 $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT name, colour FROM fruit");
 $sth->execute();

 $result = $sth->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_CLASS, "fruit");
 //$result contains an array of fruit objects
 ?>

Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.fetchall.php

Answer 3

Use $result = $q->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);