How to do a second PDO mysql query in a while loop from another query?

问题

So a snag I am hitting in using PDO MySQL is that if i run a query like so:

$db->pquery("SELECT `category_id`, `category_name` FROM `database_categorys` ORDER BY `category_name` ASC");
while ($category = $db->fetch())
{
}

Inside the while loop i cannot do another query or it will cancel out the previous query, is there a way to get around that?

This is my pquery btw:

// A plain query
public function pquery($sql)
{
    $this->STH = $this->database->prepare($sql);  

    $this->counter++;

    return $this->STH->execute();
}

And my fetch function:

public function fetch()
{
    $this->STH->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC); 
    return $this->STH->fetch();
}

回答1:

This isn't a PDO limitation, it's a limitation of the MySQL client library. MySQL supports only one query in progress at a time. You can't execute another query while the first query still has an open cursor (i.e. it still has results to return).

You have these options:

Use PDOStatement::fetchAll() and collect the whole result set of the outer query in a PHP array. This finishes the query result of the outer query. Then you can loop over the array and run an additional SQL query for each loop iteration.

But running a new query for every loop iteration of the outer result set is not efficient. It's a good way to kill the performance of your application.

Some people call this the N+1 Selects Problem because you run the first select, which returns N rows, and then you run N selects based on the results of the first select.
If you use MySQL, use PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY which basically does the same thing, downloads all the rows, saved in an array internally. Then subsequent calls to fetch() just iterate over the buffered results.

But this also involves the N+1 Selects antipattern.
It's better to write a single SQL query that gets you the values you want. Guessing from your comments, you want categories and the count of related rows from another table where category_id matches. Here's an example of such an SQL query:
```
$db->pquery("SELECT c.`category_id`, c.`category_name`, COUNT(*) AS `count`
FROM `database_categorys` AS c 
LEFT OUTER JOIN `other_table` AS t ON t.category_id = c.category_id
GROUP BY c.category_id
ORDER BY c.`category_name` ASC");
```

Joins are a fundamental part of SQL. If you try to use SQL without learning to use joins, this is like using PHP without learning to use while loops.

Start here: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins.

回答2:

Try to do the 2nd query after the first query's while loop or fetching of records is complete.

Edit:

You need to use JOIN for that, or combine the 2 queries using IN. Here's the manual

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13202261/how-to-do-a-second-pdo-mysql-query-in-a-while-loop-from-another-query

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