API17:JDatabase

The "API17" namespace is an archived namespace. This page contains information for a Joomla! version which is no longer supported. It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.

JDatabase

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	__call	Magic method to provide method alias support for and .
public	addQuoted	Adds a field or array of field names to the list that are to be quoted.
public	connected	Determines if the connection to the server is active.
public	dateToString	Method to get a object represented as a datetime string in a format recognized by the database server.
public	debug	Sets the debug level on or off.
public	explain	Diagnostic method to return explain information for a query.
public	getAffectedRows	Get the number of affected rows for the previous executed SQL statement.
public	getCollation	Method to get the database collation in use by sampling a text field of a table in the database.
public	getConnection	Method that provides access to the underlying database connection.
public	getCount	Get the total number of SQL statements executed by the database driver.
public	getErrorMsg	Gets the error message from the database connection.
public	getErrorNum	Gets the error number from the database connection.
public	getEscaped	Method to escape a string for usage in an SQL statement.
public	getLog	Get the database driver SQL statement log.
public	getNullDate	Get the null or zero representation of a timestamp for the database driver.
public	getNumRows	Get the number of returned rows for the previous executed SQL statement.
public	getPrefix	Get the common table prefix for the database driver.
public	getQuery	Get the current or query, or new object.
public	getTableCreate	Shows the table CREATE statement that creates the given tables.
public	getTableFields	Retrieves field information about the given tables.
public	getTableList	Method to get an array of all tables in the database.
public	getTicker	Get the total number of SQL statements executed by the database driver.
public	getUTFSupport	Determine whether or not the database engine supports UTF-8 character encoding.
public	getVersion	Get the version of the database connector.
public	hasUTF	Determines if the database engine supports UTF-8 character encoding.
public	insertid	Method to get the auto-incremented value from the last INSERT statement.
public	insertObject	Inserts a row into a table based on an object's properties.
public	isQuoted	Checks if field name needs to be quoted.
public	loadAssoc	Method to get the first row of the result set from the database query as an associative array of ['field_name' => 'row_value'].
public	loadAssocList	Method to get an array of the result set rows from the database query where each row is an associative array of ['field_name' => 'row_value'].
public	loadNextObject	Method to get the next row in the result set from the database query as an object.
public	loadNextRow	Method to get the next row in the result set from the database query as an array.
public	loadObject	Method to get the first row of the result set from the database query as an object.
public	loadObjectList	Method to get an array of the result set rows from the database query where each row is an object.
public	loadResult	Method to get the first field of the first row of the result set from the database query.
public	loadResultArray	Method to get an array of values from the field in each row of the result set from the database query.
public	loadRow	Method to get the first row of the result set from the database query as an array.
public	loadRowList	Method to get an array of the result set rows from the database query where each row is an array.
public	nameQuote	Wrap an SQL statement identifier name such as field, table or database names in quotes to prevent injection risks and reserved word conflicts.
public	query	Execute the SQL statement.
public	queryBatch	Execute a query batch.
public	quote	Method to quote and optionally escape a string to database requirements for insertion into the database.
public	select	Select a database for use.
public	setDebug	Sets the database debugging state for the driver.
public	setQuery	Sets the SQL statement string for later execution.
public	setUTF	Set the connection to use UTF-8 character encoding.
public	stderr	Return the most recent error message for the database connector.
public	transactionCommit	Method to commit a transaction.
public	transactionRollback	Method to roll back a transaction.
public	transactionStart	Method to initialize a transaction.
public	updateObject	Updates a row in a table based on an object's properties.
public static	getConnectors	Get a list of available database connectors.
public static	getInstance	Method to return a instance based on the given options.
public static	splitSql	Splits a string of multiple queries into an array of individual queries.
public static	test	Test to see if the connector is available.
protected	__construct	Constructor.
protected	fetchArray	Method to fetch a row from the result set cursor as an array.
protected	fetchAssoc	Method to fetch a row from the result set cursor as an associative array.
protected	fetchObject	Method to fetch a row from the result set cursor as an object.
protected	freeResult	Method to free up the memory used for the result set.
protected	replacePrefix	This function replaces a string identifier with the string held is the class variable.

• Defined in libraries/joomla/database/database.php
• Extended by
  • JDatabaseMySQL
  • JDatabaseMySQLi
  • JDatabaseSQLAzure
  • JDatabaseSQLSrv

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.database.database' );

See also

• JDatabase source code on BitBucket
• Subpackage Database
• Other versions of JDatabase

User contributed notes

<CodeExamplesForm />