DB querying
There are 3 variants to loop through db results:
Without mapper:
Execute a SQL query and fetch the result set as an array of associative arrays:
$users = $db->exec('SELECT * FROM users');
foreach($users as $user)
echo $user['name'];//associative array
With mapper->load:
Fetch mapper rows one by one (your method):
$user=new \DB\SQL\Mapper($db,'users');
$user->load('');
while(!$user->dry()) {
echo $user->name;//db mapper
$user->next();
}
With mapper->find:
Fetch the result set as an array of mappers:
$mapper=new \DB\SQL\Mapper($db,'users');
$users=$mapper->find('');
foreach($users as $user)
echo $user->name;//db mapper
DB error handling
\DB\SQL is a subclass of PDO so it can throw catchable PDO exceptions. Since these are disabled by default, you need to enable them first. This can be done in 2 different ways:
-
at instantiation time, for all transactions:
$db = new \DB\SQL($dsn, $user, $pwd, array( \PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION ));
-
later on in the code, on a per-transaction basis:
$db->setAttribute(\PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, \PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
Once PDO exceptions are enabled, just catch them as other exceptions:
try {
$db->exec('INSERT INTO mytable(id) VALUES(?)','duplicate_id');
} catch(\PDOException $e) {
$err=$e->errorInfo;
//$err[0] contains the error code (23000)
//$err[2] contains the driver specific error message (PRIMARY KEY must be unique)
}
This also works with DB mappers, since they rely on the same DB\SQL class:
$db=new \DB\SQL($dsn,$user,$pwd,array(\PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE=>\PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION));
$mytable=new \DB\SQL\Mapper($db,'mytable');
try {
$mytable->id='duplicate_id';
$mytable->save();//this will throw an exception
} catch(\PDOException $e) {
$err=$e->errorInfo;
echo $err[2];//PRIMARY KEY must be unique
}