PHP PDO SQL only returning one row of data instead of all rows

Question

I am using PHP PDO extension to create a list of all items from a DB category table. The expected results are not correct, only one row of data returned instead of all rows

Answer 1

You have to use fetchAll like below:

$rows = $_stmt->fetchAll();
print_r($rows);

Answer 2

PDOStatement::fetch() will only return 1 row at a time.

You could use PDOStatement::fetchAll():

$rows = $_stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

or create a loop where you keep calling PDOStatement::fetch() until it returns false:

$rows = array();
while( $row = $_stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC) ) {
  $rows[] = $row;
}

But the latter example is a bit redundant, if you want to get all rows at once anyway, unless there are some memory concerns you want to address.