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Stacy J
Stacy J

Reputation: 2781

Laravel - retrieving mysql query result array returned to controller to display in view

How do I retrieve the result array returned from my model :-

$result = DB::select('select title from mainTable');
return $result;

in my controller so that I can pass it to my view :-

$title = "Main Page";
$data =             //I want to assign the result to data
$view = View::make('mainpage')->with('data', $data)->with('title', $title);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 15054

Answers (3)

iavery
iavery

Reputation: 554

If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to figure out how to add something to the $data variable and pass it into a View. If you assign something as

$data['result'] = DB::select('select title from mainTable');
return View::make('main page', $data);

You will now be able to access the query results as $result from within your blade template. I would definitely recommend using the ORM so that you can get the entire result in a single query, as in:

// Model /app/models/Main.php
class Main extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = 'mainTable';
}

// Controller (within route method)
    $data['result'] = Main::find(1);
    /* Gets the mainTable result with an id of 1 */

    return View::make('page', $data);

// Template /app/views/page.blade.php
    <h1>{{ $result->title }}</h1>
    <!-- Outputs the title for the result as an H1 HTML element -->

Upvotes: 2

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146191

You can simply create a model like this

class Main extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = 'mainTable';
}

Then from your controller you can use following code to get all records from mainTable table:

$title = "Main Page";
$data = Main::get(array('title'))->toArray(); // Or Main::all(['title']);
return View::make('mainpage')->with('data', $data)->with('title', $title);

Update: You can use something like this if you want

class Main extends Eloquent {
    protected $table = 'mainTable';

    public function scopeGatAllByFieldName($q, $field = null)
    {
        if(is_null($field)) return $q;
        return $q->select([$field]);
    }
}

From your controller you may call it like:

$title = "Main Page";
$data = Main::gatAllByFieldName('title')->get()->toArray();
return View::make('mainpage')->with('data', $data)->with('title', $title);

Upvotes: 1

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 3658

The Laravel docs (http://laravel.com/docs) do a great job of demonstrating how to use the Database and Query Builder modules.

"The select method will always return an array of results." (http://laravel.com/docs/database.)

$data = DB::select('select title from mainTable');
$view = View::make('mainpage')->with('data', $data)->with('title', $title);

I much prefer using Query Builder.

$data = DB::table('mainTable')->select('title')->get();
$view = View::make('mainpage')->with('data', $data)->with('title', $title);

Upvotes: 0

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