Joomla! Documentation™

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 It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.

Defined in

libraries/joomla/database/database.php

• see source code in BitBucket

Subpackage

Database

Extends

JObject

Extended by

• JDatabaseMySQL
• JDatabaseMySQLi

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Database object constructor.
__destruct	Database object destructor.
addQuoted	Adds a field or array of field names to the list that are to be quoted.
connected	Determines if the connection to the server is active.
debug	Sets the debug level on or off.
explain	Diagnostic function.
getAffectedRows	Get the affected rows by the most recent query.
getCollation	Get the database collation.
getConnection	Get the connection.
getConnectors	Get the database connectors.
getErrorMsg	Get the error message.
getErrorNum	Get the error number.
getEscaped	Get a database escaped string.
getLog	Get a database error log.
getNullDate	Get the database null date.
getNumRows	Get the number of rows returned by the most recent query.
getPrefix	Get the database table prefix.
getQuery	Get the current or query, or new object.
getTableCreate	Shows the CREATE TABLE statement that creates the given tables.
getTableFields	Retrieves information about the given tables.
getTableList	List tables in a database.
getTicker	Get the total number of queries made.
getUTFSupport	Get the database UTF-8 support.
getVersion	Get the version of the database connector.
hasUTF	Determines UTF support.
insertid	Get the ID generated from the previous INSERT operation.
insertObject	Inserts a row into a table based on an objects properties.
isQuoted	Checks if field name needs to be quoted.
loadAssoc	Fetch a result row as an associative array.
loadAssocList	Load a associactive list of database rows.
loadNextObject	Load the next row returned by the query.
loadNextRow	Load the next row returned by the query.
loadObject	This global function loads the first row of a query into an object.
loadObjectList	Load a list of database objects.
loadResult	This method loads the first field of the first row returned by the query.
loadResultArray	Load an array of single field results into an array.
loadRow	Load the first row returned by the query.
loadRowList	Load a list of database rows (numeric column indexing).
nameQuote	Quote an identifier name (field, table, etc).
query	Execute the query.
queryBatch	Execute a batch query.
quote	Get a quoted database escaped string.
replacePrefix	This function replaces a string identifier with the string held is the class variable.
setQuery	Sets the SQL query string for later execution.
setUTF	Custom settings for UTF support.
splitSql	Splits a string of queries into an array of individual queries.
stderr	Print out an error statement.
test	Test to see if the MySQLi connector is available.
updateObject	Update an object in the database.
getInstance	Returns the global Database object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.database.database' );

See also

• JDatabase source code in BitBucket
• Other versions of this class

Examples

<CodeExamplesForm />