Select Query with OOP PHP ORM - php

Question

for a customer I have to make little adjustments to an application what is build on OOP PHP. I have no experience at all with OOP, and normally I only use PHP for small functions. I would like to select data from my database, to use it in a build function and variable. My code under will explain
public function readTwitter(){
$accounts = array();
$hastags = array('coldplay');
\ORM::for_table('feed_items')->where('portal_reference', 'tw')->delete_many();
foreach($accounts as $account) {
$feed = $this->twitter->getFeedByAccount($account);
foreach($feed as $post){
$this->twitter->savePost($post);
}
}
foreach($hastags as $hashtag) {
$feed = $this->twitter->getFeedByHashtag($hashtag);
foreach($feed->statuses as $post){
$this->twitter->savePost($post);
}
}
}
So in this version of the application the foreach loop will check if the var is filled in, what is now done with an array, and use it in the function readTwitter() What I like to have is a select query which selects one specific row out of my database to use it instead of an array, written in my application as OOP as follow (written in procedural php):
$dbCon = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "root", "database");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `questions` WHERE `location` = 'wall' ORDER BY `questions`.`id` DESC ";
$query = mysqli_query($dbCon, $sql);
if ($query) {
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($query);
$hashtags = $row[2]; //instead of array('coldplay');
}

Answer 1

public function readTwitter(){
$dbCon = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "root", "database");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `vragen` WHERE `location` = 'wall' ORDER BY `vragen`.`id` DESC ";
$query = mysqli_query($dbCon, $sql);
if ($query) {
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($query);
$accounts = $row[3];
$hashtags = $row[2];
\ORM::for_table('feed_items')->where('portal_reference', 'tw')->delete_many();
$feed = $this->twitter->getFeedByAccount($accounts);
foreach($feed as $post){
$this->twitter->savePost($post);
}
$feed = $this->twitter->getFeedByHashtag($hashtags);
foreach($feed->statuses as $post){
$this->twitter->savePost($post);
}
}
}
I have tried to combine the code and it works like I want, but I dont think this is the right way for OOP, right?