Simplest method to retrieve single (and only) row in SQLite using PDO

Question

I have this PDO

$stmt = $db->prepare(\'SELECT * FROM channels WHERE id=:id\');
$stmt->bindValue(\':id\', $id, SQLITE3_INTEGER);
$result = $stmt->execute         


        

Answer 1

It should be as simple as

$row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

The examples you've seen probably have something more like

while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) { ...

because they're designed to process a query result with multiple rows. But if you know you'll only ever have one row, you can just forgo the loop. Of course, this is assuming your query actually executed successfully and returned a result. It would be a good idea to at least check

if ($row) { ...

before you try to use it in your subsequent code.